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pochards scarce, and the white-eye the only kind at all well represented. 

 Pintail and teal were also scarce and not a single spot bill was seen, though 

 Lieut. Francis says " I spent many days of the cold weather boating on the 

 Indus, yet I never came across a single spot bill." 



At Sita Road, where the season was a bad one, pintail were especially 

 scarce and at Etah there were fewer mallard and more gadwall than in the 

 previous season. White-eye were also more numerous. In the Champarum 

 district, Bengal, white-eye and tufted duck were unusually numerous. Spot 

 bill and cotton teal were very good and teal good at Dharwar, but the other 

 varieties were scarce. Marbled duck were very numerous at Seistan and one 

 was shot at Bharatpur. In Manipur State Colonel Shakespear reports that 

 Mr. W. A. Cotgrave shot a pink-headed duck in November 1908 and an- 

 other was recorded in the Journal Vol. XIX., p. 261, by Mr. E. R. Jardine 

 from Koolay, Upper Burma, shot in December 1908. In the same Journal, 

 Lieut. W. R. C. Tennison, R.A., mentions shooting two stiff-tailed ducks 

 near Nowshera. 



We are indebted to the following members and others for sending in 

 Shooting Season returns : — 



Col. W. G. Walker, (Kangra Valley) ; Major G. H. Frost, I.M.S., (Gur- 

 daspur Dist.) ; Capt. A. M. Rundall, (Gurdaspur Dist.) ; Capt. R. J. Brad- 

 ley, (Gurdaspur Dist.) ; Lt. H. L. Scott, (Kangra and Gurdaspur Dist.) ; 

 Lt. R. B. Phayre, ( Gurdaspur Dist., Phillour and Ghaziabad) ; Major R. 

 C. Kennion, ( Seistan) ; Lt. R. F. Francis, (Dera Ismail Khan); Lt. N. 

 Mosley, (Multan and Sita Road) ; Lt. W. M. Logan Home, ( Nasirabad, 

 Neemuch and Deesa) ; Mr. E. H. Young, (Ajmer) ; Mr. R. Whately, (Abu 

 Road) ; Major E. O'Brien, (Mahi Kantha) ; Mr. O. O'Donnell, (Bahraich 

 and Gonda Districts) ; Mr. W. B. Cotton, I.C.S., ;(Etah) ; Mr. J. S. E. 

 Walker, (Ghorasan) ; Major H. R. Baker, (Cannanore ; Mr. C. W. M. Hud- 

 son, I.C.S., (Dharwar) ; Mr. E. Lund, (Balur) ; Lt. C. D. Gregson, (Banga- 

 lore) ; Major H. P. Ainslie, (Cuddapah and Mysore) ; Mr. L. W. Middleton, 

 (Sonapur, Assam) ; Lt.-Col. J. Shakespear, (Imphal, Manipur) ; Mr. W. T. 

 Page, (Lower Bengal) ; Mr. P. F. Wickham, (Andamans). 



