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No. XI —OCCURRENCE OF THE BRONZE-CAPPED TEAL 

 (EUNETTA FALCATA) NEAR ROORKEE. 



T am sending you to-day the skin of a duck, which I find some difficulty in 

 identifying and should be extremely obliged if you would give me your 

 opinion on it. Judging from Baker's Indian Ducks and their Allies and Hume 

 and Marshall's Game Birds of India, it appears to be the female of a Bronze- 

 capped Teal. I shot it on the evening of the 9th instant on some jheels fifteen 

 miles south of Roorkee. It came over me alone, and I at first took it to be a 

 Gadwall, of which the bag with some Mallard chiefly consisted. My boatman 

 told me it was a cross between a Gadwall and a Teal ! 



E. H. KELLY, Lt., R.E. 

 (1st P. W. O. Sappers and Miners.) 

 Roorkee, U.P., 13th January 1910. 



[The skin proves to be that of a young male Bronze-capped Teal (Eunetta falcata). On 

 3rd March we also received a fully adult g from Capt. Mainprice, also from Roorkee.— Eds.] 



No. XII.— WOODCOCK (SCOLOPAX ROSTICOLA) IN KANARA. 



I send herewith a female Woodcock shot by me on the 17th of December 

 1909 in the Shivpur Nalla of the Supa Petha of the Kanara District. The 

 country is very hilly all round, the nalla-bed is about 300 feet above sea 

 level, some forty odd miles from the coast line. On each side the valley is 

 shut in by steep slopes to a somewhat extensive plateau above, all covered 

 with grand high forest, much of it pure evergreen 1000' on the plateau. The 

 country is well watered throughout, the Shivpur Valley especially so, its waters 

 flowing into the Kalanadi river, which drains the whole of the northern part 

 of the District. The temperature of these parts is as low as 46° at this time of 

 the year in the evenings and thereafter heavy mists at night, lasting often up 

 to nine o'clock in the morning. 



I had shots at a pair of Woodcock some fifteen years ago on the plateau of 

 Gund above ; another settled under my ladder during a tiger-beat about the 

 same place and I came across a fourth on still another occasion. The bird 

 however is exceedingly rarely met with in Kanara. 



Colonel Peyton shot one some thirty years ago about the same place, and 

 curiously enough, on the same day that Mr. Laird-MacGregor, then Divisional 

 Forest Officer, Belgaum, accounted for one somewhere in the Ghats of that 

 District. 



T. R. BELL, 



Kaewar, 10th January 1910. Conservator of Forests. 



No. XIII.-OCCURRENCE OF THE EASTERN SOLITARY SNIPE 

 ((?. SOLITARIA) AT HAKA, CHIN HILLS. 



The first day of the New Year found me exploring the nullahs and streams 

 around here for game as my gun had just returned from being overhauled and 

 cleaned. 



