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ANAS LUZONICA 
GENERAL HABITS 
Very little has been w ritten about the life-history of this bird. J. \Miitehead (1899) 
found it in large flocks on the Rio Grande in northern Luzon during the month of 
April, when over a hundred could be seen together. It frequents small mountain 
lakes, usually in small flocks, in Benguit and Lepanto. Whitehead found it tame; 
tw'o of his servants shot over twenty in two hours on one of the Lepanto Lakes. 
R. C. McGregor (1909) did not often find it in large numbers, but usually in pairs 
on the tidal creeks, small ponds or other suitable localities. Worcester and Bourns 
{fide R. C. McGregor, 1909) considered it rare in all localities visited, except Mila- 
gros on the west coast of the island of Masbate, where it w'as very abundant, 
occurring in great flocks. Aggregations of from twenty-five to two hundred were 
constantly met wdth on the low’er Abulug River in northern Luzon. Governor 
W. Cameron Forbes told me that he did not consider this at all a common duck 
and that in all his travels about the islands he never met with it anywhere in really 
large assemblages. 
It has never been exported alive to Europe or America. 
