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Identifier: indianduckstheir00bake (find matches)
Title: The Indian ducks and their allies
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Baker, E. C. Stuart (Edward Charles Stuart), 1864-1944 Lodge, George Edward, ill Grnvold, Henrik, 1858-1940, ill Keulemans, J. G. (John Gerrard), 1842-1912, ill Green, J., lithographer Bombay Natural History Society
Subjects: Ducks Ducks Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Bombay) : Published by the Bombay Natural History Society London : R.H. Porter Calcutta and Simla : Thacker, Spink, and Co. Bombay : Thacker and Co.
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nd pools and even on the shore itself. It is very common on the ChilkaLake, and I have seen it on the bracki.-h tidal waters of the Sundei-bumls. Except in midwinter, they are to be met with in considerable numbersin the lofty valleys of the Himalayan rivers, in Kashmir, and at otherequally lofty elevations, and from thence down to the level of the ))lain.In Kashmir they a)i)iear to 1k met with more or less throughout the coldseason, but, probably, desert the higher \alleys of the Himalayas durino-the coldest period. Hume savs : They arri\( in flocks, and liefore leaving in A()ril gatheragJiin into these, but during the winter they are almost imariably seen inpairs. Gften several pairs may l>e seen congregating in the same jilace,but even then each i)air separates on any alarm and act> on its own behalfand without reference, to the others. In Bengal, and further south proljably, few people see them in flocks,even when they arrive or when about to depart, as the flock< seem to
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a ^ 9i -1 !d ZO X CASAUCA KUTILA. 117 break up soon after their arrival in Northern India, and the pairs thenmake their way to their final destination, free from the influence of thebirds they started with. In Northern India the first few birds arrive asearly as—perhaps even earlier than—the end of September, and then workslowly south, arriving in Central India and adjoining Provinces at least amonth later, nor are they common in Bengal until early November. InSouthern India they are rare before the end of that month. The latterpart of the country they leave again in the end of February and early inMarch, by the middle of that month nearly all have left Lower Bengal, theCentral Provinces, and Central Bombay, and by the beginning of Aprilthey are just thinning in Northern India and most have gone before Maysets in. They have been, of course, recorded throughout that month, andeAen in Bengal I once saw a pair in the end of April, but these are, I think,but examples of the exceptions

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