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I always found them either in sturted jungle on or grassy slopes with a 

 few oakes, pines or rhododendrons scattered about. 



Occasionally I have seen them in very heavy jungle where one gets 

 Tragopan (scarlet breasted) but open jungle or grassy slopes were more or 

 less near by. The height at which I met them was generally between 5,000 

 to 7,000 feet. 



I have seen others below the road East of where No. 4 Stockade used to 

 be (4,000 ft.). This appears to be the place where Finn shot his specimen. 



R. BLANDY, Captain. 

 Head-quarters 7th Infy. Brigade, M. E. F. 

 Mesopotamia, 25^ March 1918. 



No. XIV.— NOTE ON KALIJ PHEASANTS IN THE CHIN HILLS. 



Hound No. 3 Stockade Bungalow there is a lot of stunted jungle in which 

 there are quite a large number of Kalij pheasants, I shot and skinned a 

 large number of these pheasants but I hardly ever shot 2 alike here. They 

 were all hybrids between Williams and Horsfields pheasants. I shot 

 pure horsfieldi up in the hills and pure wiLliamsi pheasants on the Western 

 slopes in the Valley of the Manipur It. and also at Kalewa and Yazajee. I 

 never shot a pure William's pheasant on the Eastern Slopes of the Chin 

 Hills and they were all horsfieldi or hybrids ; so it appears that Williams 

 pheasants keeps to very definite localities and is probably, I believe, only 

 found in the valley of the Manipur R. at present, as far as the Chin Hills 

 is concerned. 



Hkad-quarters, 7th Infy, Brigade, R, BLANDY, Capx, 



M, E, F, 



2oth March 1918, 



No, XV,— OCCURRENCE OF THE LESSER FLORICAN OR LIKH 

 S. AURITA IN THE MAHABLESHWAR HILLS. 



The Florican I wrote to you about was shot on the hills in the month of 

 April 1915. The actual locality was wooded plateau 6^ miles froin 

 Mahableshwar, about half a mile through small jungle to the south of the 

 Mahableshwar-Panchgani Road, There was a pool of water on the 

 plateau. We walked about for sometime looking for its mate but with 

 no success. Mr. J. W. Fellowes, Mrs. Fellowes and Mr. J. T. Tanner, 

 were all there and could verify this statement, if necessary. 



KYRLE FELLOWES. 

 Mahableshwar, 10th May 1918. 



No. XVI.— ABNORMAL VAIilETIES OF THE INDIAN RED- 

 START (It RUF1VENTRI8) AND THE COMMON HOUSE 

 CROW (C. SPLENDENS). 



An account of these abnormal varieties of common birds may be of 

 interest to place on record — 



(I). The Indian Redstart — Ruticilla rufn-entris. 



Female, shot near Mochiwala^ District Jhang, Punjab, on 14th March 

 1918. 



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