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Shortly after thi^, General McLeod recorded that he had shot a female 

 at Feroza, Bhawalpur, in December lb71) ; and G. Reid, in the same 

 volume of ' Stray Feathers ' as that in which this record is made, states : 

 '■ Two years ago, I myself saw two or three in possession of a nati^-e 

 fowler, w^ho would not part with them, except at a fancy price, sayincr he 

 meant to take them with a lot of others he had to the ex-King of Oudh, 

 who would pay him handsomely/' He does not say whether the " lot of 

 others" were of the same species, presumably not. 



Two young males, one withont the sickle-shaped secondaries and one 

 with these fully do^'elo})ed, were obtained )jy Mi'. Finn in the Calcutta 

 bazaar ; a specimen has been shot in Purneah ; two specimens — an adult 

 male and a young bird of the same sex — are in the Lucknow Museum, and 

 were, I 1)elieve, obtained near that place. Besides these, one was obtained 

 in Upper Burma, near Bhamo, in 1903. and a second ]jv Hopwood at 

 Kindat in March 19U6 ; these are the only ones I can find recorded from 

 Burma except Anderson's. Major Cowley, of the 43rd Gurkha Regiment, 

 obtained one in Manipur, and, as far as I can ascertain, this is the onlv one 

 ever seen in that State. In Tirhoot, Mr. Inglis has obtained no less than 

 eight specimens ; and its western limits have lately been added to by 

 Mr. L. Robertson, who obtained an adult male of this species in the Narra 

 Valley, Sind. 



In addition to those recorded alcove, the only other specimen I have 

 ever heard of was one, a young male, shot by my father, Mr. E. B. Baker, 

 in Jessore, and several shot by Messrs, Moore, Mundy, and myself in 

 Assam. 



There is no reason, however, that sportsmen in Upper Burma should 

 not meet with this bird more often than would seem to \vA\e been the case 

 hitherto, for N.E. Burma is well within range of its annual migrations, and 

 doubtless when men wake u[) to the fact that records of rare ducks are still 

 desirable, we shall have a good many from that quarter. 



Anderson obtained specimens on the Taipeng River, in Upper Burma ; 

 but I cannot ascertain how many he got. 



The Bronze-cap})ed Teal, when found within our limits, ap[)ears always 

 singly or in pairs, perhaps very rarely in small parties. In places where it 

 is more niunerous it collects in flocks, as a rule rather small, consisting of 

 about twenty or thirty, individuals, but at other times in very large flocks ; 

 and tliey are said to arrive at the borders of their breeding-grounds in 

 immense flights. It has the reputation of being a very socialjle, if not a 

 liiglilv gre;iari()us bird, and their small flocks freijuently, indeed generallv, 



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