Dafila acuta, Linne.
VomaCTllar ITamCS.—[Sanh, Sink-par, A'. W. Provinces ; Dighons. Sho-lon-cho,
Bengal; Laitunga, BfaMipur; Tavv-bay, Thaw-wom-bay. British Bitrtuah ;
Digoonch, Nepal; Kokarali, Drighush, Sindh; Ade, Ad la. (in common with
other species), Ratnagiii; Sink-dum, Cabul; Cliasitghsu aurdalc, (Turki),
NE of the most generally diffused of all our migratory
Ducks, there is no district in the Empire, from Ceylon
to Kashmir, from Kashmir to Sadiya and Manipur,
and so on to Moulmcin,* where the Pin-tail
does not occur in greater or less abundance, only in
the southernmost portions of Tenasscrim, it has
not yet been observed. It is very common, too,
almost throughout the Himalayas. But alike to these and to
the plains, it is only a winter visitant.
Outside our limits, it occurs in Northern Siam and Upper
Burmah, is excessively common in China, Mongolia, Central Asia,
Afghanistan, Beluchistan, and Persia, and generally it may be
said to occur almost throughout the entire Northern Hemisphere
between the ioth and 70th degrees of North Latitude. It gets
a little further south than this in Southern India and Ceylon, and
Borneo (where a straggler has recently been observed)-)- and
possibly in South America, where, at any rate, it extends to
Panama ; and it does not get quite so far south as this in Siam
or Tenasserim, or in Eastern or Western Africa. Again, in
Asia, at any rate, it probably travels somewhat north of the 70th
degree.
It occurs in Japan, Hainan, Formosa, Ireland, Iceland, and
several of the West India Islands, but has not been recorded
from the Azores, Canaries, Philippines or Sandwich Islands,
though these are all apparently within its range.
l l u s w a s a t BmUdu, on the north-west coast in about 4° North Latitude.