INDIAN DUCKS AND THEIR ALLIES. 9 
As regards its distribution in India Hume gives very full details, 
He writes: “‘ Very rarely seen in the Himalayas, the Tufted Pochard is 
rather thinly distributed in the cold season in the Punjaub and the 
Doab, is scarce in Rajpootana, more common in Rohilkhand and Oudh,. 
and less so in the Central Provinces and Bundelkhand. 
“Tn Sindh itis not very abundant; in Cutch more ; in Kathiawar 
and Gujerat, in the Central India Agency, Khandesh and the Deccan 
fairly common. — 
“In Bengal, Cis- Srahmaputra, it has been noticed in many districts,. 
but I believe it to be rather scarce there, though my information on 
the subject is scant. Damant records it, and some of Godwin-Austin’s 
people procured it from Manipur ; but I have no information of its 
occurrence east of the Brahmaputra, whether in Assam, Cachar, Sylhet, 
Tipperah, Chittagong or any portion of British Burmah. I do 
not doubt that it straggles into many of these, but the fact has yet to 
be ascertained. 
“It occurs in places in very large flocks: in Chota Nagpur, the 
Northern Circars and the Nizam’s dominions, straggling by the way 
at times into the Southern Konkan. It has been shot near Bellary, 
and certainly, though rare there, visits Mysore; but south of this 1 
have heard of it nowhere in the Peninsula, except in the north of the 
Coimbatore district, nor has it yet been recorded from Ceylon. Here 
too, however, our information is very imperfect, and stragglers will 
probably turn up in many districts whence the species has not yet 
been noticed.” 
Then ina foot-note he says: ‘This species has not been recorded 
from Kashmir.” Lately, however, in the Aséan, in the same bag as that 
to which I referred in my last article as having been obtained by 
A. H. W. in Kashmir, two tufted ducks are recorded as having formed 
part of the bag. There can be little doubt that it occurs constantly 
but not in large number in that State. It is not common, but at the 
same time may be met with occasionally throughout Assam, Cachar, 
Sylhet and Chittagong. Mr. R. 8. Routh, Superintendent of the Hill 
Section of the A.-B. Ry., shot two fine specimens on the 21st Novem- 
ber, 1898, in a large tank in the station of Haflong, Cachar, and I have- 
an immature male in my collection shot by one of my men in Cachar,. 
as well as two young females. I have it recorded from Sylhet. and: 
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