374 Mr. W. II. Ogilvie Grant on the 



into Kainthal, when I saw three pairs near the Moskol nullah, 

 where the river widens and is broken up by sandbanks into 

 five or six streams. 



On a marshy island across the river, covered with low 

 shrubs, I am nearly certain they were breeding, as they kept 

 flying backwards and forwards to it. I was unable to cross, 

 as the stream was very swift and deep, besides being intensely 

 cold. I shot a specimen which I just managed to retrieve 

 before the river sw^ept it away. It corresponded in every 

 particular with Jerdon's description, except that the legs of 

 my specimen were greenish grey*. After it had been skinned 

 and dried the legs turned a dirty lobster-red — hence, perhaps, 

 Jerdon^s blood- red legs. While I was away my wife saw 

 one quite close to the tent, and told me its legs were greenish. 

 I have sent the body in spirit to Professor Newton, by whom 

 I hope the vexed question as to the correct systematic posi- 

 tion of this form may be settled. 



I saw this bird as low down as 9000 feet, near Jushin, in 

 the Wurdwan. It has a plaintive whistling call, which once 

 heard is not easily forgotten. 



35. Tringoides hypoleucus. 



Common in Sum on the marshes at the foot of the glaciers, 

 where I found it breeding in July. We found the young 

 just hatched at Doonara, on the Suru side of the Bhut-kol 

 Pass, where several pairs were breeding. 



XXXI. — On the Crimson-headed Wood-Partridge (Haemat- 

 ortyx sanguiniceps). By W. R. Ogilvie Grant. 



(Plate X.) 



Of the many wonderful new forms of bird-life which have 

 been discovered in Borneo during recent years, none is more 

 interesting and striking than this Wood-Partridge, the male 

 of which is now figured for the first time. Although this 



* The absence of hind toes, and the short and blunt nails, reminded 

 me of a Bustard. — W. W. C. 



