MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 365 



came across a full grown female Shoveller in a heavily reeded jhil totally 

 unable to fly through the fact that all the wing feathers were in moult that 

 is the quills were about 6 to 8 inches long each with a little tuft of feather 

 (about 1 inch) just showing. 



At first I was inclined to think it must have been bred here, but I doubt 

 this as the bird wag too brightly coloured, so it must have been a hit bird 

 which stayed on here instead of flying north in March. 



I notice this is a very early year for duck here. I saw a flock of teal on 

 the river on the 12th, and Pintail and Gadwall and Shoveller on the 27th, 

 the latter also on 25th. 



Another curious thing about the moulting Shoveller is that the "jhil" 

 is really a wet part of the grass farm near here and there are no reeds 

 there at all till about June, the grass is all cut right down by February. 



Have Shovellers been ever found breeding in the N. W. F. P. ?. 



NowsHERA, N. W. F. P., ^ W. M. LOGAN HOME, Capt., 



2Wi Au(/ust 1914. 112th Infantry. 



[As far as we know the nearest countries to India in which the Shoveller breeds 

 are Turkestan and Northern Persia. --Eds.] 



No. XXI.— OCCURRENCE OF THE FALCATED TEAL (EUNETTA 

 FALCATA) IN THE UPPER CHINDWIN. 



"Whilst shooting duck at Thazi Jheel, about 50 miles north of Kindat, 

 on February 10th, 1914, I obtained a fine male of the above species, the skin 

 of which was sent to the Society's museum. The bird was flying by itself 

 but was following close behind a pack of male pintail which I had had put 

 up, and with which it had presumably been feeding. I am inclined to 

 think, however, that there were other falcated teal on the jheel earlier in 

 the morning, as I saw a small pack of about a dozen ducks which I could not 

 identify (they passed twice out of ohot) and in size and flight they very 

 much resembled the specimen obtained. I may here note that the male 

 E. falcata previously obtained by me at the adjoining Kaya Jheel was shot 

 on January 15th, 1906, and not in March as stated in Stuart Baker's book 

 on the " Indian Ducks." During two seasons (1911 and 1912), shooting on 

 most of the jheels in the Lower Chindwin and Sagaing districts, I failed to 

 meet with E. falcata, and the only other specimen I ever shot was a 

 solitary female in Aracan, either in 1908 or 1909, the date I think I 

 recorded in my list of Aracan birds, published in the Society's Journal, 

 p. 1220, Vol. XXI. 



CYRIL HOPWOOD, i.f.s. 



Kindat, %tn May 1914. 



No. XXII.— A NOTE ON THE NESTING OF SOME BIRDS 

 FOUND IN THE MULTAN DISTRICT. 



The Geey-backed Warbler. (Aedon familiaris.) 



The nidification of this species has not so far as I can find out been 

 recorded in India, so it may be of interest to ornithologists to know that 

 it is one of the commonest birds in the Multan and Montgomery "Bars" 

 during the months of May and June. 



