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Mr. Percy Hyde in epistohl also records that " in January, 1902, 

 there were three or four packs of the Spotted Sand-Grouse about 

 eighteen miles east of Karachi. 



To the west there appear to be no records beyond those of 

 Blanford except a single bird reported to me as shot near Nagar in 

 Jodhpore. 



The greater number of the birds which visit India appear to be 

 migrants from across the border during the cold weather, but there 

 is no doubt that a considerable number remain all the year round. 

 Bulkley in commenting on Barnes' note to the effect that "a few 

 apparently remain to breed in Sind," writes, "a fair number of them 

 remain throughout the year, as I have seen them in the hot weather 

 and in the monsoon in Guzerat." 



In the Trans-Indus country, Sind, and the Punjab these Sand- 

 Grouse are very numerous in the cold weather and a considerable 

 number are also found in between the Indus and the Jhelum and 

 Chenab. Further south they are numerous in Cutch and Guzerat 

 and in the west of the desert country of Jusalmir and Mallani. East 

 of this they are only found as stragglers in the winter months. 



Nidification. — The Spotted Sand-Grouse probably breeds in some 

 numbers in Sind, but owing to the great difficulties in getting to, 

 and working, the arid wastes in which they breed, there is very little 

 on record concerning them. 



Mr. Pearson took two sets of three eggs at Kotri on May 16th 

 and other, oviduct, eggs have been obtained, and Dr. C. B. Ticehurst 

 in a letter to me writes : " Yes, certainly senegallus breeds in Sind, 

 but not near here (Karachi) ; some breed very early, as I shot a 

 female on the 18th February, which had just passed an egg." 



They breed in many parts of Mesopotamia and South Persia. 

 Tomlinson has taken several clutches near Basra, and Pitman found 

 them breeding near Kut-el-Almara, Sinn, etc. 



The breeding-season must be a very protracted one, as one of my 

 eggs, taken from the oviduct, was procured in February in Sind, 

 whilst those taken by Mr. H. Pearson in the same country were laid 

 in May, and yet another oviduct-egg in my collection was not 

 procured until August. The clutch of eggs taken by Dodson in 

 Tripoli were found in July. Jourdain obtained a pair of eggs (one 



