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■east of Brahmapootra, whether in Assam, Kachar, Sylhet, Tipperah, 

 Chittagong, or any portion ot British Burmah ; I do not doubt that it 

 straggles into many of these, but the fact has yet to be ascertained. 



'"' It occurs in places in very large flocks ; in Chota Nagpur, the 

 Northern Circars, and the Nizam's dominions, straggling by the way at 

 times into Southern Konkan. It has been shot at Bellary, and certainly, 

 though rare there, visits Mysore ; but south of this I have heard of it 

 nowhere in the Peninsula, except in the north of the (Joimbatore district, 

 nor has it yet l^een recorded from Ceylon. Here, too, however, our 

 information is very imperfect, and stragglers will probal)ly turn up in 

 many districts whence the species has not yet been noticed. ^^ 



Then in a footnote he says : " This species has not been recorded from 

 Kashmir." Lately, however, in the ' Asian,' in the same bag as that to 

 which I referred in a previous chapter as having been obtained by 

 A. E. W. in Kashmir, two Tufted Ducks are recorded as having formed 

 part of the bag. There can be little doubt that it occurs constantly, but 

 not in large numbers, in that State. It is not common, but at the same 

 time may be met with occasionally throughout Assam, Cachar, Sylhet, 

 and Chittagong ; Mr. R. S. Routh, Superintendent of the Hill Section of 

 the A.-B. Ry., shot two fine specimens on the 21st November, 1898, in 

 a large tank in the station of Haflong, Cachar ; and I have an immature 

 male in my collection, shot by one of my men in Cachar, as well as two 

 young females. I have it recorded from Sylhet, and it is the most 

 common of all the Pochards in Lakhimpur. It was plentiful at Dimagi 

 and Sissi, and I saw it in all the rivers, Subanrika and smaller streams, 

 about Patalipam and North Lakhimpur, its very black plumage making 

 it very easily distinguishable. Recently it has been recorded as having 

 been shot in Burmah, near Mandalay; and Gates, in ' Game-Birds,^ records 

 that out of the bag of 562 ducks already referred to as having been shot 

 by Captain Johnson and party, no less than 122 were of this species. 

 Major Rippon also informed him that this duck was to be found all ovei 

 the Shan States, though Gates himself did not meet with it anywhere in 

 Lower Burmah. It will doubtless prove to occur plentifully throughout 

 the northern half at least of that province, and probably, in small numbers, 

 as far south as the north of Tenasserim. 



This Pochard is one that essentially requires open water, and in 

 preference resorts to wide expanses of water of some considerable depth 

 in the centre, though more or less weed and rush overgrown round 

 the shores. Where such pieces of water are to be found, the Tufte(! 



