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No. VIII.— OCCUEREN'CE OF THE BRONZE-CAPPED TEAL 

 {EUNETTA FALCATA) IN SIND. 



The Society has lately received the well-preserved skin of an adult male 



specimen of the ]^ronze-capped teal (Eunetta falcata) from Mr. L. Robertson, 



I.C.S., who writes that he shot it on 10th January last in a jheel in the 



(Eastern) Nara Valley about 20 miles from Mirpur Khas, Sind. This species 



is ordinarily an inhabitant of Eastern Asia, only occasionally visiting India 



in the winter months, and few records of its occurrence in India proper exist, 



though probably the females and young males are at times, when obtained, 



passed over without notice in a mixed bag of ducks. Since Mr. Stuart 



Baker's article on the species appeared in our Journal (Vol. XII., p. 18) one 



of our members has recorded seven specimens brought to him daring the 



cold weather of 1899-1900 in Tirhut. The present instance is however the 



more interesting, as it is undoubtedly the most western point from which the 



species has been recorded in India, the limit of range having previously been 



Bahawalpur, and next to that Ferozepore and Delhi. 



E. COMBER. 

 Bombay, August, 1901. 



No. IX.— HABITS OF THE LUNGOOR MONKEY. 

 At the Village of Mallegaon Jageer, during the cold weather, I one day 

 went out alone with my gun, partly to see what I could get, and also to think 

 over at my leisure a case which was before me for decision. To the west of 

 the Akola road, near which ray tents were pitched, there was then a large 

 grove, almost big enough fo be called a wood, in which the trees were of 

 great size, but owing to the shade they gave, there was very little under- 

 growth. Wishing to find some shade, as the sun was becoming uncomfor- 

 tably hot, I turned my steps to one end of the grove, and soon became aware 

 that there was a great stir in the monkey wcrld that inhabited the trees. 

 They w«re lungoors, monkeys about as big as a Newfoimdland dog when full 

 grown, and they were running about in a very agitated manner. Living ao 

 much in camp, I had, of course, seen hundreds of lungoors at nearly all times 

 and seasons, but now I saw at once that something unusual was going on. As 

 the trees grew on both sides of a nullah that ran through the wood I 

 wondered at first if a panther were in the nullah or anywhere about and if 

 the commotion were due to his unwelcome presence ; but after looking on for 

 a few minutes I saw that the real reason of the scrimmage was the return to 

 the herd of all the young males, which are yearly driven away by the 

 principal male monkey, the strongest and biggest, and, therefore, the 

 sovereign, generally called " the rajah."' 



I had heard from the natives that this happened every year, and that the 

 rajah never kept undisputed possession of his harem for more than one year 

 and it was my good fortune to see how he was driven avray or killed. The 

 bark of a full-grown male lungoor cannot, after being once heard, be 



