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1921.] Birds of North-East Chihli. 
November. A few winter in the mountains on unfrozen 
streams. 
A winged bird kept with the fowls and a tame duck became 
very friendly with the latter, and after a few months lost 
most of its natural shyness, feeding with the domestic bird 
and quacking with it in concert when its food was brought 
to the chicken-yard. 
286. Anas zonorhyncha Swinhoe. 
Anas zonorhyncha D. & O. p. 496; La T. p. 584. 
The Yellow-Nib Duck passes in March and April, and 
from the beginning of September to November. It probably 
breeds here as elsewhere in China. I have seen it hanging 
in the game-shops in the market during January. 
This Duck was observed by me near Newchwang in early 
summer. 
287. Eunetta falcata (Pallas). 
Eunetta falcata D. & O. p. 504 ; La T. p. 585. 
The Falcated Teal is extremely abundant from the middle 
of March to the beginning of May and during the latter 
half of September, remaining until the end of October, and 
occasionally during November, as four were noted on the 
13th of November, 1911. 
A winged bird, purchased in the spring of 1913, partly 
put on eclipse plumage late in the summer. The forehead, 
crown, lores, and sides of the head became brown, the fore¬ 
head and crown being barred with deep buif. Scapulars 
brown, vermiculated or barred with dull light reddish- 
brown ; the flanks reddish-brown, evenly barred with pale 
rufous, ring round the neck deep brown; chin and sides of 
neck speckled with brown. 
288. Chaulelasmus streperus (L.). 
Chaulelasmusstreperus D. & O. p. 499; La T. p. 585. 
1 shot a male Gadwall on the 12th of April, 1911, and a 
female on the 28th of September, 1913. This is one of the 
less common Ducks in China. 
