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which is 6 ozs. less than the lightest weight given by Hume for an adult 

 male. 



" . . . . The stomach contained fish, weeds, and sand. 



" With this drake was procured a female similar to those formerly sent. 

 It was wounded, and was put in a cage, and unfortunately was allowed to 

 escape. 



" We may now get set down the Garrot or Golden-eye as a regular 

 winter visitant to the Punjauh portion, at any rate, of the Indus, and as 

 Barnes procured it near the mouth of the Indus, it most probably occurs 

 throughout the length of that river. But can it be confined to the Indus ? 

 Surely, if properly looked for, it will be discovered in the Chenab and 

 other Punjaub rivers. Is it purely a river duck with us, or will it also 

 occur in jheels ? Other sportsmen in the Punjaub must help us to settle 

 these questions. 



"P.S. — My last Golden-eye is a young female, weight 1 llj. 3 ozs. . . . 

 it was seen with a number of others on a little pool. There were no other 

 ducks about." 



Thus Stoker seems to have got no less than five specimens, and a sixth 

 was got by an officer whom he does not name. Barnes got one other, and 

 these are all that had hitherto been recorded ; but in consequence of my 

 notino- ill the orioinal article on this duck in the B. X. H. S. Journal to 

 the following effect — " None have been since met with, so that it looks 

 as if Stoker''s queries as to its regular appearance must be answered in 

 the negative,^' — Col, Yerbury wrote to the Journal (»i loc. cit.) as 

 follows : — " In the Chack Plains, on the banks of the Indus above 

 Attock, the Golden-eye is a regular, and by no means rare cold-weather 

 visitant. 



'^ On referring to my old Shikar diary, I find the following records 

 regarding it : — 



I. Azgar, 2Gth December, '85 (2 spec. ? ? ). 

 II. „ 27th December, '85 (1 do. c? immature). 



III. „ 8th February, ^"^i^ (2 do. unsexed). 



IV. River Indus between Attock and Azgar, 24th February, ^80 



(1 spec, unsexed j. 



" On the latter date I was in com|)any with Dr. Stoker, and we shot 

 up stream from Attock along the Ijanks of the river to Gaziabad, returning 

 the next day to Attock Ijy boat. 



" I can find no records of shooting any specimens during the cold 



