584 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIIL 



No. XV.— COTTON TEAL {NETTOPUS COROMANDELIANUS) 

 IN KASHMIE. 



You may be interested to learn of the occurrence of the cotton teal in a 

 region so far removed from his usual habitat as this is. On Monday on the 

 great Holdra jheel, about 6 miles from here in the first shoot of the season, 

 I killed what appears to be a young male, though the dark ring below the 

 neck is absent. I showed it to Col. Ward who had no note of a former 

 occurrence in his " Birds of Kashmir." He is having it skinned and if 

 you wish it I will send you the skin. Curiously enough the boatman who 

 was out with me seemed to know the bird which he called a " Noora, " but 

 he had never seen it before in the shooting season. The bags per gun made 

 on Monday varied from 60 to 168 (7 guns) chiefly teal and whiteyes, but 

 there were some mallard and a few gadwall, also a Wigeon. Some pintails 

 and a gaggle or two of geese were seen. 



F. J. MITCHELL. 



Srinagae,, \^tli October 1914. 



No. XVI.— MALLAED BREEDING IN THE KARACHI ZOO. 



A pair of Mallard caught atPithoro, Sind, in February 1914, produced 6 

 ducklings towards the end of June in the Zoological Gardens, Karachi, to 

 the surprise of a good many people in the locality. Two out of the six 

 have since died, but the remainder (3 5 $ ? 1 d* ) are still flourishing and 

 have at the time of writing assumed their full plumage. There are no signs 

 whatsoever of any cross having taken place. The parent birds escaped 

 from the Duck Pond and constructed their nest in a dense bamboo thicket 

 on an island in the middle of the Large Pond reserved for Storks, Geese 

 and Pelicans, The nest was not discovered until after the hatching had 

 taken place. 



I am not aware that the Mallard, Anas boscas, has been known to breed 

 (even in captivity) in the plains of India before, hence I thought a short 

 note on the occurrence might be of interest. 



F. LUDLOW. 



Karachi, 28f/j September 1914, 



No. XVII.— MARBLED TEAL ON THE N. W. FRONTIER. 



I think it may be of interest to you to know that I shot a $ Marbled 

 Teal {M. an</iistirostis) this afternoon, about 9 miles west of the Cantonment 

 on a small jheel near the Kabul river. I have never heard of or seen 

 this duck in these parts before, I do not know whether it has been often 

 recorded from N. W. Frontier ? 



W. M. LOGAN HOME, Capt., 

 NowsHERA, N. W. F. p., 12th Infantry. 



llth October 1914. 



No. XVIII.— NEW GAME BIRDS FROM THE N.-E. FRONTIER. 



In the last Number of the Bulletin British Ornithologists Union, Vol. 

 XXXV, p. 18, Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker described a new Blood pheasant as 

 Ithageues tibetanus. This species difters from the lately described Tcuseri 

 in being much paler below and the crimson being confined to the breast. 

 The lores are crimson instead of black and the supercilium instead of 



