1859.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 117 



nlive which was brought to me, when just fledged, from a pond or small 

 lake about twelve miles off."* 



To the foregoing notices may be added the fact that I procured a speci- 

 men of Phalaropus fulicarius in the Calcutta provision bazar, on May 

 11th, 1816. Though so late in the season, it had not begun to assume the 

 summer colouring ; and it was miserably lean, though the plumage was in 

 good order for stuffing. The late Prince of Canino records the occurrence 

 of this species so far south in America as the lake of Nicaragua (the Coci- 

 bolca of the aborigines), in lat. 12° north ! 



Still more remarkable, Dr. L. C. Stewart obtained a specimen of Lopipes 

 hyperboreus, an arctic species very rare even in North Britain, in the 

 vicinity of Madras !f It is now, together with the last, in excellent pre- 

 servation in our museum. 



The delicate Calliope camtsckatkensis is common in the neighbour- 

 hood of Calcutta during the cold season ; but I have never seen it from any 

 part of the Himalaya. Von Wrangell, however, tells us that this particular 

 species (which cannot well be confounded with any other) arrives "early 

 in April, with the Snowfleck, in the Lower Kolyma district" in Northern 

 Siberia !J 



The ' Pomarine Skua' sent from Burma by Major Tickell is in adult 

 plumage ! In general, the young of migratory birds proceed further equa- 

 torially than the adults; and, as instanced by the present species, various 

 arctic birds that have occurred in the British islands or surrounding seas 



* In Tom. XLIII, p. 644, of the Comptes Eendus, the late Prince of Canino 

 remarks — "Mori Lestris Hardyi n' est adiuis comme espece ni a Lejde ou on le 

 nomme Lestris parasiticus ? ex Malasia, Boie ; ni a Berlin ou le seul qu'on 

 possede a ete pris en pleine mer entre les Philippines et les iles Sandwich. M. 

 Cabanis l'a etiquete Lestris crepidata." 



The Gargany and the Pintail are the two commonest species of Ducks in Lower 

 Bengal during the cold season, at least they are brought in by far the greatest 

 numbers to the provision-bazars, and are, pre-eminently, the 'wild Duck' and 

 * Teal' of our tables. Our most common Pochard is the ' White-eye' (Eflig-ula 

 nyroca). The Gradwall, Shoveller, Widgeon, and true Teal, are tolerably common, 

 as also the Ked-crested, the Tufted, and the Dun Pochards : the Shieldrake is 

 not rare : but the Mallard I have never seen yet, though assured that it has been 

 shot so near as at Raniganj. Casarca rtttila is common, of course ; and the 

 non-European species I here pass over. 



It may be remarked, however, that a Duck from Abyssinia which Dr. Riippell 

 sent us for A. p^Ciloriiyncha, and which is described as A. Buppelli in J. A. 8, 

 XX1Y, 265, proves to be A. flavirostris, A. Smith, figured in the Zoology of 

 8. Africa. The only difference is, that the neck in the figure is represented to 

 be minutely speckled, instead of being streaked with a dark median line on each 

 feather; and there is no discernible dusky mark through the eye in the Society's 

 Abyssinian specimen. The description, however, demonstrates their identity. 



t Vide J. A. 8. XXII I, 214. 



X 'Narrative of Expedition to the Polar Sea,' Sabine's translation, p. 52. 



