22 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIII, 
1880.” (The bird already recorded.) “On the 21st of January, 1882, 
Mr, Chill obtained an immature male of this species near the Najafgarh 
jheel (approximately Lat. 29° M. Long. 77’ E.) and now, again, 
another near the same locality on the 28th October of the same 
year.” 
“ Since this was written Mr. Lean of the 5th Bengal Cavalry informs 
me that he has just shot a duck of this species in the Philibheet 
district.’ 
Again in the same Vol. of Stray Feathers appears a note by Mr. 
Chill, dated 8th February, 1883: “On the 27th of December last, I sent 
you in a iin box an Erismatura leucocephala. Since that I have 
managed to purchase two more of that species—one a cat took away— 
and the other I have got stuffed.” ‘These were apparently got near 
Faruknagar near Delhi. 
About this time, February, 1883, Mr. Bomford also got a specimen 
on the Indus at Multan Keengurh. 
From this time none are recorded until Lieut. ‘Buiks shot one 
at Halkote in February, 1891. 
The next recorded specimen was not met with until almost exactly 
two years later, then in the Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 
occurs the following note by Mr. Finn :— 
“(Erismatura leucocephala). The present individual was sent to 
the Editor of the Asian newspaper by Capt. H. R. Davis, who stated 
(Astan, February 14th, 1896) that it was shot by Capt. E. D. 
White, 52nd Light Infantry, at Bettiah, near Hardoi, between Lucknow 
and Bareilly. It is in heavy moult, and quite incapable of flight, which 
considering the time of its occurrence is rather surprising, and almost 
looks as if the species might be somewhere resident within our limits.” 
It is mentioned in the list of birds in Mr. W. R. Laurence’s recently 
published work on the “ Valley of Kashmir,” as having occurred 
in that country. 
Yet again in 1896, but on December the 27th, Major J. C. P, 
Onslow, R. E., shot two, and Mr. H. B. Campbell one, of these 
ducks, in the Ganges Kadur, about 20 miles south of Kadur. 
Next in the Asian of the 8th February, 1898, A, EH. W. records 
having shot three stiff-tailed Ducks in Kashmir, in amongst a vast. 
number of other birds shot at the same time. 
