THE DARSLED Veal. 
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Querauedula angustirostris, Ménétries. 
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oa T is curious that this conspicuously distinct species, and 
x Eyet one that visits our Empire in such comparatively 
; large numbers, should have remained unnoticed until 
my visit to Sindh. Since its first discovery there, 
however, it has been repeatedly met with—not only 
there, but in several distant portions of the Empire. 
ae Its normal range with us (it is presumably only 
a cold weather visitant) appears to be the whole of Sindh, 
(from every sell aneonatte in which it has been recorded, and 
where it is extremely common), and Northern Gujerat, 
the southern half of the Dera Ghazi Khan District, and of 
Bhawalpur, in all three of which it isa regular but less abun- 
dant visitant. No doubt it will be met with in Cutch and 
Northern Kathiawar, but it has not been thence recorded as yet. 
But outside these limits it occurs much further east asa 
straggler. I have had specimens from Western Oodeypore, and 
from near Delhi. The late Mr. A. Anderson procured it in the 
N.-W. Provinces, at Fattehgarh, and in Oudh near Hurdui; and 
I myself obtained two freshly-killed specimens in the Calcutta 
market, the one in December and the other in February, which 
had been captured about 22 miles south-west, and some 18 miles 
west, respectively, of the metropolis. 
Outside our limits, it occurs in suitable localities (though 
these are few and far between) in Beluchistan and Southern 
Afghanistan. From Persia Proper it has not yet been recorded, 
but it was originally described from Lenkoran, (on the south-west 
coast of the Caspian in about 39° North Latitude), and there can 
be no doubt that it will be found in many places in Persia, and 
probably in Mesopotamia. In Palestine it is very abundant, and 
breeds. In North-east Africa it seems to be very rare. Tristram 
has a specimen from Alexandria, and Heuglin himself procured 
a specimen in the Beni Hasan region; but no other record of its 
occurrence in Egypt or Nubia is known to me. Heuglin gives 
it from Tripoli; it is very common in Tunis (in winter) as it is 
in Algiers and Morocco (in summer), in both of which, as also 
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