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to Calcutta to have my ideutificatioii confirmed — is a very 

 fine example. The upper plumage is dark brown, the edges 

 of the feathers, particularly the scapulars, being a rich 

 rufous. The head is much lighter, the feathers, though 

 dark-shafted, being much paler — often white — on the edges, 

 and the white basal feathers shewing through. The chin, 

 throat, and breast are white, with a few dark shaft- stripes ; 

 the abdomen and thighs are a rich dark brown, tinged 

 with rufous, and with several large white drops irregularly 

 distributed. 



According to the label, the feet and legs were lemon- 

 yellow, and the claws and bill lead-black. I shot both birds 

 near the same place, a babool-jungle, in the middle of an 

 open plain. I fancy that I have seen other specimens on 

 several occasions, but I have never had a chance of getting 

 them. In the Museum there is a very dark, almost melan- 

 istic, specimen ( ? ) , shot by the native collector at Pithano- 

 garh (Kumaun). 



Francolinus vuLGAius (Stcph.) , Black Partridge. 



Reid, though he admitted this bird into his " list," only 

 did so on hearsay. His belief that it existed within the 

 borders of the division has been proved correct by Mr. T. 

 Peacock, of this station, who very kindly brought me tlie 

 fresh skin of a Black Partridge, which his brother had killed 

 in the patowal grass fringing the railway-line about two 

 miles from La Martiniere College. It must, however, have 

 been a straggler. The nearest locality for it that I k?ioiv of 

 is the '-'maujar" of the R. Gogra at Fyzabad. 



Rallus aquaticus (Linn.). European Water- Rail. 



One day at the beginning of December 1899, Mr. De Cruz, 

 of Lucknow, very kindly sent me an unknown bird that 

 he had shot. Seeing that it was a Water-Rail, I had it 

 skinned immediately, when it proved to be a female. On exa- 

 mination I noticed that it lacked the eye-band of R. indicus, 

 so I sent it to Mr. Finn, of Calcutta, who kindly examined 

 it for me, and confirmed my surmise that it belonged to this 

 species. Except this specimen, I can find no record of either 



