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“ Males in first nuptial dress have brown streaks on the hind neck 
and scapulars” (Seebohm), 
The young resemble the adult female, but have no dark defined 
lorial patch, and the crest is darker and rather duller. The white wing 
patch is suffused more or less with brown, and the breast is more 
spotted. 
“Young in down—Upper parts, including the sides of the head 
below the eye, but only the back of the neck, dark brown; below the 
eye a very small white spot ; white spots on the posterior edge of the 
wing, on the sides of the back, just near the joint of the wing, the 
sides of the rump and on the flanks ; throat and sides of the upper 
part of the neck conspicuously white; crop region dusky, flanks 
brown ; breast and abdomen white” (Salvadori). 
The habitat of the Smew, during the summer and breeding season, i3 
practically the Palearctic region throughout Europe and Asia, whence 
it descends south into Southern Huropean countries, the basin of the 
Mediterranean, Northern India and adjoining countries, China and 
Japan, and very rarely also it has been recorded from North 
America, 
As regards its occurrence in India, Blanford writes: —“ Within our 
limits the Smew is fairly common in winter in the Punjab, and it is 
found in Sind, Northern Guzerat, the North-West Provinces and Oudh. 
Jerdon records it from Cuttack, and I met withit more than once near 
Raniganj in Bengal, but it has not been observed further east nor in 
Southern India.” To this I can add no absolutely certain record, but 
I think that once in 1882 I saw a flock of these birds, five of them, 
near Hazaribagh in Chota Nagpur. It is very unlikely that I could 
have made a mistake in my identification, and I have no doubt myself 
about what they were, still I failed to shoot one, so that the record is 
not a perfect one. 
I can find nothing further re this bird being obtained in India 
beyond the fact that in the British Museum Catalogue there are three 
birds  @ Q ad. et @ jur. stn.” obtained, by Falconer in Bengal. As 
Oates remarks, there is no reason why it should not be obtained in 
Northern Burma as it extends further east and south in China. 
Even in Northern India it can nowhere be called a common bird, 
though there are some few places to which they resort with compara- 
