THE CRESTED OR BRONZE 
CAPPED FEAL," 
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Querquedula falcata, Georgz. 
Vernacular Names.—[None. ] 
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<s=-<3} HE Bronze-capped Teal is another rare winter 
. visitant to the British Asian Empire, but it cannot 
be so rare as the Clucking Teal, as during the last 
ten years I have procured no less than five speci- 
mens of it, vz, a pair (the male with the tertiaries 
fully developed) captured by fowlers, near Lucknow, 
Sp in March, and given me by Dr. Bonavia ; a male 
shot at Karnal seventy miles north of Delhi, in February, by 
Major C. H. T. Marshall ; a male procured by myself in the 
flesh, in the Calcutta market and caught in the immediate neigh- 
bourhood in January; a male obtained by Mr. W. N. Chill, 
at Sultanpur, thirty miles south-west of Delhi, in February. 
I have no other record of the occurrence of this species 
within our limits. 
Outside our limits its range is very similar to that of the 
Clucking Teal; but it is, on the whole, a slightly more southern 
species, and may be expected to occur oftener in India. Like 
that species it does not appear tooccur normally west of the 
Yenesay, on which river Middendorff heard of one having been 
once captured in North Latitude 69° 30’; but it does not 
generally get quite so far north as this, and was not observed on 
the Boganida. Its normal summer range is probably the whole 
of Siberia east of the Yenesay, and owfszde the Arctic Circle ; and 
throughout this, including Kamschatka, it breeds, as it does also 
in Eastern Mongolia and Dauria, and even in the valley of the 
Hoang-ho. In winter it is found throughout China, including 
Formosa, as also in Japan. Probably, when we know more of 
these countries, it will prove to extend to Tonquin at any rate. 
Anderson actually obtained specimens at Tamilone on the 
Taipeng River beyond Bhamo, in about 25° North Latitude. 
* This bird has been commonly called of late years the FALCATED TEAL, but this 
name I must decline to adopt ; it is not English, and is misleading. 
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