418 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



dig with its long bill. It remained with me for about six weeks, when, as 



my Regiment was under orders to march, and I was afraid if left behind it 



would meet with an untimely end, I carried it down to the river about two 



miles off and left it there. 



W. S. HOEE, 



Lieut. Colonel. 

 Deesa, September, 1891. 



III.— SNIPE SHOOTING IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 

 OF SECUNDERABAD. 



It may be of interest, both to sportsmen and to Naturalists, to record the 

 relative proportions of the four species of Snipe which fell to my gun during 

 the past three seasons in the neighbourhood of Secunderabad. I was not 

 shooting between January and March, 1 889, so have nothing to compare with 

 that period in 1890, but the results of the three seasons tend to show that the 

 Fantails and Pintails are as nearly equally distributed in this neighbourhood 

 as are the Jacks and Painters. 



