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“This measured : length 15°75 ; expanse 26°35; tail 3°66; bill from 
gape 1°66 ; weight 1b. 5oz.” 
“The irides were a bright pale yellow; the feet bright yellowish- 
orange, with dark blackish webs ; bill black at base and tip witha 
medial yellow band about 0°25 in width.” 
In the same letter, in a P. S., he continues :— 
“ Since this was written I have shot another Golden-eye, a bird of 
the year... <A third bird, precisely like this second, was shot by an 
officer here, but hitherto the drake has resisted all our attempts to 
assassinate him.” 
“7 showed the first bird to a very intelligent native at Ghazi and he 
assured me that they appeared there every year regularly, and that three 
years ago he shot one. Tam certain that I shot a duck of this species 
some three years ago. it puzzled meat the time, but now I have 
no doubt what it was.” 
Then in a second letter Mr. Stoker again writes:—‘“ Since I last 
wrote, L have succeeded in obtaining a fine drake Golden-eye, which 
I am sending you. . 
«There were four of them together in a little stream opposite the 
village of Hassanpur. 
“The natives call them ‘ Burgee, the ‘bur’ pronounced as in 
burrow. Burgee, I believe, only means patches of black and white. 
“Myr, Barlow informs me that these ducks come to Ghazi every 
winter. 
««This drake measured—wing 9°0. 
“ We all said what a heavy bird, but it only weighed Ib. 10oz., 
which is 6 oz. less than the lightest weight given by you for an adult 
male. 
“«  .... The stomach contained fish, weeds and sand.” 
«¢ With this drake was procured a female, similar to those formerly 
sent. It was only wounded and was putin acage and unfortunately 
was allowed to escape. 
“We may now set down the Garrot or Golden-eye as a regular 
winter visitant to the Punjab portion, at any rate, of the Indus, and as 
Barnes procured it near the mouth of the Indus, it most probably occurs 
throughout the length of that river. But can it be confined to the 
Indus? Surely, if properly looked for, it will be discovered in the 
