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It is clear that to Mr. MacmnIloH belongs the credit of first obtaining this 



species in a locality which is undoubtedly British Indian. 



EUGENE W. GATES. 

 Savack Club. London, 



2ith December. 1908. 



No. XI.— SARUS CRANE {GliUS ANTIGONE) IN SALSETTE. 



I saw one Sarus Crane at Santa Cruz on the evening of the 9th inst. I have 

 only seen these bk-ds once before in Salsette and that was at Panwell in 1897, 

 the famine year. It is, I believe, unusual to see one alone. A few days pre- 

 viously on the Bandra Railway Station platform I saw a dead Sarus which 

 looked as if it had been shot, but as no one was near it I could not enquire 

 whence it came. Perhaps this was the other one of the pair. 



HE UGH S. SYMONS. 

 Pali Hill, near Bombay, 



nth December 1908. 



No. XII.— OCCURRENCE OF THE LESSER FLORICAN OR LIKH 

 (SYPHEOTIS AURITA) IN THE KONKAN, WESTERN INDIA. 



A Lesser Florican (female) was shot by me near Panwell yesterday. I did 



not see its mate. About 20 years ago I shot a similar bird at Mahalaxmi. 



These are the only two birds of this species that I have seen below the ghats 



during my stay in Bombay. 



HEUGH S. SYMONS. 

 Pali Hill, Bombay, 



18</i January 1909. 

 [Elauford saj-s in Vol. iv. — Birds (Fauna a/' Brilish India) : — " Stragglers have been met 

 with near Gwadar in Beluchistan and in Oudh and the N.-\V. Provinces, Nepal, Bengal, Chutin. 

 Nagpur, Orissa (I once shot a bird not far from Cuttack) and on the Malabar Coast. One 

 specimen is on record shot at Sandoway, Arrakan ; but the bird is not found in Ceylon, nor , 

 with rhe exception mentioned, is it known to occur east of the Bay of Bengal." — PJds.] 



No. XIII.— occurrence OF THE SPOONBILL {PLATALEA LEU- 



CORDIA) IN LOWER BURMA. 



The following may perhaps prove of interest, as I think it is the tu-st record 

 from Burma. 



On November 1st, 1908, at Kamigywe near Akyab, I shot a Spoonbill 

 {Platalea leucordia). It was a young bird with black tips to the primaries, 

 and a flesh coloured bill. 



Since writing the above 1 have seen two parties of Spoonbills, in one case 



six and in the other about twelve birds. They were met with near where I 



killed the first bird and were seen on the 18th and 19th of December 1908. 



J. C. HOP WOOD, 



Dy. Consr., Forests. 

 Akyau. L, Burma, 



\&th February 1909. 



