6 JOURNAL, fit >M BAY SATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



S-20.— THE CHUKOR. 



Caccqbis chukor, Gray. 



The Chukor occurs ou the hills that divide Sind from Khclat ; it 

 is very common all along the Bolau Pass, 



I have personally only met with it in the latter place, and on the 

 Khoja Amran Hills in South Afghanistan, where it is particularly 

 common, and from whence I procured a splendid series of eggs, 

 during the latter part of April and all through May, during 

 the war in 1880. I never noticed what might fairly be called a nest ; 

 the eggs were placed on the ground in a hollow, under the shelter 

 of a bush, with perhaps a few straws that appeared to have come 

 there by accident, rather than with any intention to form a nest. 



Eight is the largest number that I ever found in a nest, but the 

 Afghans, some of whom are intelligent and close observers of nature, 

 assert that they often find fifteen or twenty. 



I once saw a hen bird with quite the latter number of chicks, but 

 that they all belonged to the same brood I am not prepared to say. 



The eggs are somewhat peg-top shape, but not to such an extent as 

 those of the Francolins. They average 1'36 inches in length by 

 about PI in breadth. In colour they are pale stone, darker or lighter 

 in different specimens, speckled and blotched with lavender -brown. 



821.— THE SEESEE, 



Ammopcrdic henhami, Gray, 



The Sccsce Partridge frequents the same localities as the last, but 

 it is only in the Bolan and Khojak Passes that I have met with them. 

 They breed from the end of April to the commencement of June. 

 The nest, if it may be called such, is a few scraps of grass and roots, 

 lining a slight depression on the ground in a similar manner to that 

 of the Chukor. I have never taken more than six eggs in a nest, 

 but I understand that they often lay ten or twelve. The eggs 

 resemble a common type of those of the Grey Partridge, pale smoky - 

 white, at times inclining to fawn. 



They arc absolutely unspoiled; they measure 1-36 inches in length 

 by about 1*1 in breadth. 



