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probably does not extend far eastward in the peninsula. The observations in Italian Somaliland 

 Somali- are almost entirely restricted to the district along the frontier of British East Africa, 



land where it has been found at Lamu (F. J. Jackson, 1899) and at Jipi (F. J. Jackson, 1899). 



Von Erlanger (1905) states that it is very abundant on the Lower Ganale in June and probably breeds. 



It appears to be common in most localities in British East Africa, especially in the Osi-Tana region 

 (G. A. Fischer and Reichenow, 1878). Other recorded localities for this Colony are Kingani, Kau, 

 British Barawa, Naivasha Laka and Kageji, where it probably breeds (G. A. Fischer, 1885), 



East Africa Lake Nyanza at the mouth of the Scio (Neumann, 1898), and Thika (Mackworth- 

 Praed, 1917). Emin Pasha (1891) has reported its occurrence in Lado. The species is abundant in 

 Tanganyika Province (German East Africa), at the mouth of the Kagera River (Ogilvie-Grant, 1905), 

 on Lake Nyassa (Shelley, 1881), on the Ujiji Canal (von Trotha, fide Reichenow, 1900), at Wualaba, 

 Boga Katani, where it presumably breeds, and at Karema (Bohm, 1885), at Mamboja and Ugogo 

 (Shelley, 1881), at Unyamuesi and Kazeh (Grant, 1872), in the western Njiri, Natron and Victoria 

 Nyanza regions (Schillings, 1905), and also in the southeastern districts (Grote, 1912) and on the 

 southern frontier in Langenburg (FiiIleborn,./We Reichenow, 1900). 



Very little is known of the duck life in the Belgian Congo, except that it is probably scarce in the 

 forests, and we are forced to rely on a few scattered notes. Dubois (1886a) has recorded the present 

 Belgian species from the Tanganyika region, and both Bohm (1885) and Matschie (1887) state 



Congo that it occurs on Lake Upemba. Chapin (in litt.), however, tells me that he found it 



rare in the northeastern part of the basin of the Upper Congo. It is known also from the Luapula 

 District (Capelloand Ivens, 1886). Presumably it may be found in some numbers also throughout the 

 northern and western areas of the State. Dybowski (1893) found it in the Ubangi District of north- 

 French western Congo. Farther west it is found in the coastal regions of the French Congo, 

 Congo having been reported from Gabun, Kamma, and the Ogowe River (Cassin, 1859), as 

 well as from Cabinda at the mouth of the Congo, at Landana (Sharpe and Bouvier, 1876), and also 

 from Tschintschoscho (Falkenstein, 1877) . South of the Congo this species was met with in the Mossa- 

 . . medes District, southern Angola, on the coast, at Rio Coraca and in the interior at 

 Quillenques, and at Humbe where it was common (Barboza de Bocage, 1877-81). To 

 my knowledge it has never been recorded from German West Africa, and it was not found by Anders- 

 son (1872) in that Colony, though judging from its status in southern Angola I presume it occurs in 

 the northern and northeastern sections. 



Farther east it was found to be abundant in northern Bechuanaland about Lake Ngami and on the 

 Okawango River (Andersson, 1872; Horsbrugh, 1912) as well as on the Botletli River (Bryden, 1893), 

 South and at Nocana (Fleck, 1894). It is common also on the Upper Zambesi (Bradshaw, 



Africa fij e Stark and Sclater, 1906; Horsbrugh, 1912) and especially at Shescheke (Holub 



and von Pelzeln, 1882); and recently it has also been recorded from Bulawayo, southern Rhodesia 

 (E. C. Chubb, 1909). It has been many times recorded from Portuguese East Africa, and seems to be 

 common in the southern parts. It was found far up the Zambesi at Zumbo (B. Alexander, 1900), and 

 Kirk (1864) and Bradshaw {fide Stark and Sclater, 1906) have also reported it for the Zambesi Basin. 

 From the district at the mouth it has been recorded for Somba (Shelley, 1899) and Quelimane 

 (Reichenow, 1893). Peters (fide Reichenow, 1900) has reported it for Mozambique, and both Whyte 

 and Sharpe (Shelley, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1898, 1898b) are authorities for its occurrence in the Lake 

 Shirwa region. It is reported as very abundant on the Shire River (Percival, 1902). Stierling 

 (Reichenow, 1898) found it at Ndemberebach. South of the Zambesi it is very common in Gaza- 

 land, at Chibabava and Mangunde (Swynnerton, 1908) and it has been recorded also from 

 Inhambane (W. L. Sclater, 1899) and the Limpopo River (Holub and von Pelzeln, 1882). 



From the Transvaal this species has been twice recorded as rare about Potchefstroom (W. Ayres, 

 1887; Barratt, 1876; C. H. Taylor, 1907), but in recent years has been proved to breed near Pretoria 

 (Haagner, 1914). It seems to be quite common in Natal, however. Finsch and Hartlaub (1870) state 



