ML624126377

Observation details

"The Society has lately received the well-preserved skin of an adult male specimen of the Bronze-capped teal (Eunetta falcata) from Mr. L. Robertson, I.C.S., who writes that he shot it on 10th January last in a jheel in the (Eastern) Nara Valley about 20 miles from Mirpur Khas, Sind. This species is ordinarily an inhabitant of Eastern Asia, only occasionally visiting India in the winter months, and few records of its occurrence in India proper exist, though probably the females and young males are at times, when obtained, passed over without notice in a mixed bag of ducks. Since Mr. Stuart Baker's article on the species appeared in our Journal (Vol. XII., p. 18) one of our members has recorded seven specimens brought to him during the cold weather of 1899-1900 in Tirhut. The present instance is however the more interesting, as it is undoubtedly the most western point from which the species has been recorded in India, the limit of range having previously been Bahawalpur, and next to that Ferozepore and Delhi". E. COMBER. BOMBAY, August, 1901.