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but I append its measurements as taken in the flesh and a painting of its 

 head taken from the specimen by myself. The bird is now mounted in the 

 Quetta Museum. 



R. MEINEHTZHAGEN, Capt., 



Royal Fusiliers. 

 Staff College, Quetta, 26th March 1914. 



[ Unfortunately we are unable to produce Capt. Meinertzhagen's beautiful 

 skefch. — Eds.] 



No. XXIII.— BRONZE-CAPPED TEAL {EUNETTA FALCATA) 

 AT ROORKEE. 



It may interest you to hear that I killed two Bronze-capped Teal (Eunetta 

 falcala), male and female, here on the 12th February. They were 

 flying with other duck, chiefly wigeon and pintail, and I shot them without 

 knowing what they were till 1 picked them up. 



R. G. BIGNELL, Lieut. 

 R. A. Mess, Rookkee, 14iA February 1914. 



No. XXIV.— LATE STAY OF SNIPE. ' 



With reference to the late stay of snipe in the Central Provinces noted on 

 by Mr. C. R. Pitman in Volume XXII, No. 3, page 632, in this Province I 

 have often wondered how it is that a certain number of snipe are to be met 

 with every year, very often in most unlikely spots far late in the season. 

 Here one is not surprised to see odd snipe on the banks of the Irrawaddy 

 above Myitkyina late in April as it gives the impression of stray birds 

 returning leisurely to their breeding haunts, but in both Lower and Upper 

 Burma I have time and again seen odd birds as late as the middle of May. 



