166 ANAS FALCATA 
arrived at California from the Orient, aceording to figures in the U.S. Biologieal 
Survey records. 
I do not think that Falcated Teal have ever bred in America. They seem to be 
what one might call “soft” in captivity and those I received from California arrived 
in wretched condition, although Formosan Teal {Anas for mosa) in the same crate, 
were fat and in good feather. Most of my birds died within the first few weeks .so 
that I had no opportunity to make observations upon them or to record their dis- 
play or voice. They were silent and kept so carefully concealed that they never 
came on to the water except at night. Certainly wild specimens are among the most 
peculiar ducks in this respect. Finn (1915) also found them quiet and uninterest- 
ing birds for the aviary, but hand-reared stock behaves in a more satisfactory man- 
ner, as I saw for myself in Hugh Wormald’s collection at East Dereham, Norfolk. 
Hybrids. A wild hybrid between this species and Casarca frrrnginea was taken 
near Vladivostok (Suchetet, 1896). H. C. Robinson (1918) de.scribes a duck shot in 
Assam which he believes to be a hybrid between this species and the Gadwall. 
Mr. N. Kuroda {in litt.) has captured three crosses or hybrids between this and 
the European Widgeon, in his decoy-pond at Haneda, near Tokio, Japan, between 
1907 and 1922 (see Tori, vol. 3, pi. 5, 1923). Gadwall hybrids were produced in 
captivity in Kew Gardens, England, as mentioned above. 
