FALCATED TEAL. 15x 



fine male specimen as having been captured in the 

 neighbourhood of Vienna, and he gives Hungary as 

 its European locality in the "Conspectus Avium 

 Europeearum." Mr. A. Newton is my authority for 

 its occurrence in Sweden, 



As an accidental and extremely rare visiter only can 

 this elegant bird be admitted into the European avi- 

 fauna. Its real home is in the eastern part of Siberia, 

 from the River Jenisei to the Lena, and beyond Lake 

 Baikal, as stated by Pallas in his travels, vol. iii, p. 

 701, and in the "Journey to Georgia," 1772, p. 168. 

 Latham says it probably winters in the Mongolian 

 deserts, and he states that he received a live specimen 

 from China, which lived for some time among "other 

 poultry, and was pretty familiar." Middendorff, in his 

 "Siberische Eeise," vol. ii, p. 231, gives an account of 

 it in Siberia, and figures the female and its egg. More 

 recently. Dr. Leopold Von. Schrenck has given a long 

 and somewhat prolix history of the young birds as he 

 observed them in the Amoor Land, (" Vogel des Amur- 

 Landes," vol. i, part 2, p. 476.) Erom this w'ork I 

 quote the following: — 



"Anas falcata is a very plentiful Duck in Amoor 

 Land. According to Pallas it first appears in Siberia 

 in the spring, and I shot my first specimen near 

 Nikolajevschen Posten, on the 6th. (18th.) of May, 

 1855. It might probably have been found there about 

 the end of April, since Middendorff notes its appear- 

 ance at Udskoi-Ostrog as early as the ord. of May, 

 and at TJtschur on the 14th. On the 28th. of Maj-, 

 (June 9th.) I found A. falcata at Borbi, on the upper 

 part of the Mariinskischen Posten, already paired, and 

 the male in full breeding plumage. In the summer of 

 1856 I shot an old male, on the 1st. (13th.) of June, 



