Tae WALLARO, 
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Anas boscas, Linné. 
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Vernacular Names.—[Nilsir, (Hindustani); Lilgah, Lilg, (male}, Lilgahi, 
Lilgé (female), Nepal ; Niroji, Sindh ; Subz-zurdan, Cadul ; Sun or Suna 
Aurdak, (Turki), Yérkand ; 
ommsers —— () 
LTHOUGH the Mallard is extremely abundant in 
tf, Sindh and the North-West Punjab, (to both of which 
it is only a cold season migrant), and a permanent 
resident in Kashmir, its range elsewhere within our 
Empire is very limited. In the Punjab, Cis-Satlej, 
and in the northern portions of the Doab, Rohil- 
khand, and Oudh, Gorakhpur, Basti, and Behar, 
it is not uncommon during the winter, and at the same season 
is often seen in the valleys of the Himalayas north of these 
provinces, as in Kullu, Bussahir, Kumaun, and Hodgson tells 
us (Scully did not meet with it there) in Nepal, up to elevations 
of five or six thousand feet. 
In the rest of the North-West Provinces and Oudh,®* it is, on 
the whole, scarce, and very locally distributed, and very rare 
in Jhansi and Bundelkhand. In Cutch, Kathiawar, and Northern 
Gujarat it is rare, and I hardly think it normally occurs 
much south of Surat. It is almost unknown in Rajputana 
(Adam never obtained it at the Sambhar Lake), but I have 
seen it once or twice in the west, in Jodhpore, and the western 
portions of Oodeypore. 
Ihave no record of its occurrence in the Central India 
Agency, except of the one Jerdon shot at Mhow, nor in the 
Central Provinces, though it doubtless occurs, though rarely 
throughout the former, and in the western portions of the 
* Writing from Lucknow Mr. Geo. Reid says :—‘‘ Never at any time numerous 
within the limits of this division, the Mallard may, to a certainty, be found on 
some of the larger jhils after seasons of good rainfall ; but during the cold weather 
months of the past two years—years of drought and scanty rainfall—I have not even 
seen it. The resulting circumscribed area of the jhils, coupled with the fact that 
all of them were still further reduced by irrigation long before the really cold weather 
set in, may account for its absence. In other years I have shot it on some of the 
larger lakes, though I never at any time saw it in any numbers strictly within the 
limits of the division, but further north and west in the Hurdui district, and 
especially on the ‘‘ Sandi” lake itis fairly common.” 
