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find no other record of its occurrence outside those noted by Blanford, 
viz., “ Isolated occurrences have been recorded from Kashmir, Kulu, 
and Nepal in the Himalayas, and in the neighbourhood of Attock, 
Gurgaon near Delhi,” and Karachi in the plains of India, and even 
Bombay. This last was recorded in our Journal by Mr. J. D. Inverarity, 
who shot a female on a small tank near Panwell on January 13th, 1884. 
“Col. McMaster is of opinion that, one year, in January, he saw 
several birds of this species, on marshes and salt lakes between 
Chicacole and Berhampur in the Northern Circars (say, 190 N. Lat.), 
and the male is a bird that so experienced a sportsman could hardly 
mistake for any other species that could occur there.” I do not know 
if Col. McMaster said that they were adulé birds that he saw, if 
so, perhaps, probably in fact, he was not mistaken, but if they were the 
common form of the young bird found in India asa rule, he might 
very well indeed have been mistaken. It seems strange, too, that he 
should have seen several birds when they are of such rare occurrence. 
On the other hand, I think there is no doubt that a great many young 
birds are yearly missed owing to these being mistaken fer young 
Pochards of other kinds. Possibly the most likely place for this bird 
to be met with in India would be the coast about the Gulf of Cutch 
and north to Kurachi, as the Scaup, by preference, is a sea bird. Such 
as are met with in India are doubtless ‘ moving on’ in hopes of getting 
to some coast eventually. Even in China they wander further south 
along the coast, and are far more commonly met with there than they 
are inland. When they are met with inland it will be generally 
found that they keep to great lakes, such as Lake Baikal, Lake Balkasts, 
the Sea of Ural, etc. In these vast extents of water they can live, 
according to their wont, on the water altogether, neither taking to 
land or air,except in cases of emergency, and spending their time 
diving for food or resting asleep on it just as they would were they on 
the sea itself, ; 
Although once well away on the wing the flight of the Scaup is 
fairly fast and strong, they are exceedingly slow and clumsy in getting 
off the water, their manner of so doing having been likened by various 
observers to that of the coot ; that is to say, they rise very obliquely 
Splashing noisily along the surface of the water for some yards before 
getting clear of it and, once clear, still taking some time to get up their 
