158 Mr, W. Jesse on the 



and, long before the sportsman gets within range, they rise 

 spirally until it is just possible to see them circling round 

 and round, all the while keeping up their eternal clanging 

 noise. Once heard, the cry of the Karkarra is never for- 

 gotten. 



Of course the bird is only a winter visitor, coming in 

 October or November and departing in March. 



No. 1415. *Houbara macqueeni. Houbara. 



The only specimen of this Bustard that I have heard of 

 here was one killed by Mr. P. J. Lucas in 1894, on one of 

 the maidans. 



No. 1418. (Edicnemus scolopax. Stone-Curlew. 



Bastard Elorican [Anglo-Indian sportsmen]. Bull-eyed 

 Plover [Martiniere boys]. 



A permanent resident and fairly common, particularly in 

 dhak-jungle. On account of its more or less nocturnal 

 habits it is often supposed to be rarer than it is, but, at 

 nightfall, its call may be heard in almost every grove. It 

 breeds from March to July, laying two eggs in a hollow 

 under some tree or tuft of grass. Only twice have I found 

 them in the open ; as a rule, they are in some mango- or 

 guava-tope. They are yellowish or stone-coloured, more or 

 less heavily blotched with brown. My European eggs are far 

 larger than my Indian, and amongst the latter I have never 

 seen any with a greenish ground. 



Average of 1G Lucknow eggs l'76"xl'36" 



Measurement of largest egg 1-95" x 1'35" 



„ smallest egg 1'43" Xi'3'd" 



No. 1419. Esacus recurvirostris. Great Stone-Plover. 



The Great Stone-Plover is fairly common on the big 

 rivers, but I have only once seen it in Lucknow, when I shot 

 a single specimen in cold weather on the banks of the 

 Goomti near the Martiniere College. In October 1899, I 

 killed two near the big jheel at Ajgaen. Reid says that in 

 the cold weather he has seen it on fallow land or newly 

 ploughed fields about the Chowka and Gogra, in flocks of 

 from 10 to 30. I have only seen it in pairs, or, at most, in 

 parties of four or five. 



