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COTURNIX JAPONICA Cassill. 



Common at certain times and in certain seasons. 



In the early part of November, when the second crop of 

 rice has been cut, very fair Quail-shooting may, in some 

 years, be had on the stubbles. As soon as these are ploughed 

 up the birds scatter about the country, and are found on 

 grassy hill-sides, in vegetable-gardens, and the like. 



This applies to C. communis' as well as C. japonica, and 

 hybrids of the two species are by no means uncommon. 



Arboricola ricketti Grant. 



In < The Ibis ' for 1900, p. 59, I wrote :— " My man 

 describes the note as a low ' goo, goo, goo/ " This, owing 

 to his having (like most of his countrymen) no notion of 

 whistling, gives a very poor idea of the sound. 



I have myself since heard the note more than once. It is 

 a plaintively whistled "hu-u-u," rising slightly in tone at the 

 end, and has a peculiarly melancholy effect when often 

 repeated. At times the birds utter a much shriller series of 

 notes, which are very rapid and in an ascending scale. 



They frequent thick scrub on the hill-sides or underwood 

 at the edge of patches of forest. They are difficult to flush, 

 but, when on the wing, dart through the cover at great speed 

 for twenty or thirty yards, only to drop again and squat 

 closely. 



TOTANUS STAGNATIL1S Bechst. 



Apparently not common. I know of only three or four 

 specimens obtained in October, and two shot at the end of 

 September 1902, out of a small flock of Greenshanks. 



Lakus veg/E Stcjn. 



Not at all uncommon on our coast during the winter 

 months. 



PUFFINUS LEUCOMELAS Tcmm. 



A few specimens shot off the coast in July and November. 



DlOMEDEA NIGJUPES Alld. 



La Touche has a specimen. 



