THE GREY OR oPOT-BILE 
DUCK. 
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Anas peecilorhyncha, Forster. 
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Vernacular Names.—|[Garam-pai, (Hindustani); Gugral, (Hindi), Vorth- 
Western Provinces ; Bata (apud Jerdon); Hunjur, S7zd ; Kara, Munipur ; Naddun, 
Nepal Terai ; Neer-bathoo, (Tamil); Neer-Kolee, (Canarese), for nearly all water 
fowl, Madras Presidency ; and Ddd-sarlé-haki, for all large ducks, Mysore. ] 
——o 
PERMANENT resident and an inhabitant of the 
major portion of the empire, there are comparatively 
few places in it, south of the Himalayas, from which 
the Grey Duck has not been recorded. But to the 
_Himalayas* it does not extend; it has not been 
noticed in Kashmir, Ladakh, Kullu, Bussahir, &c., 
Garhwal or Kumaun, except quite at the bases of 
the Hills, or in Nepal, except in the Terai at their feet. Again 
it has not been met with in the Southern Konkan, and is 
extremely rare (if indeed it occurs there at all) in the sub-ghat 
littoral further south. In Tenasserim I do not believe that 
it occurs at all, nor is there any reliable record of its occurrence 
in Pegu. It naturally does not occur in the Andamans, Nico- 
bars or Laccadives, and I cannot ascertain that it has ever been 
obtained in the extreme north-western corner of the Punjab, 
Peshawar, Attock, Mardan. 
With these exceptions it occurs (rarer in some places, more 
common in others)+ throughout the empire, from Ceylon to 
Smad, Sindh to. Sealkot, Sealkot to Sadiya; Sadiya to 
Munipur and southwards to Chittagong (H. Fasson) and 
Northern Arakan. 
Outside our Empire, I only know of its occurrence in Upper or 
Independent Burma, where Anderson found it not uncommon. 
It has not been observed westwards in Beluchistan or 
Afghanistan, and to the east in China and Japan it is replaced 
* Indeed, so far as my present information goes, it is a bird of the plains, 
and does not ascend any of our Indian hills to any considerable elevation. 
+ Thus it is decidedly rare in Jessore and about Calcutta; very common in parts 
of Mysore, &c, 
