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1804, and more abundantly in the Maunbhoom district, where 

 it is not uncommon. The dimensions of a specimen procured 

 on 5th March, 1865, are — Length 5*75 ; and no specimen that 

 I ever got is, to the best of my recollection, equal in this re- 

 spect to that given by Dr. Jerdon, " length about 6^ ;" but I 

 see that lower down on the same page he says, " length not 

 quite 6 in. ; " so that the first measurement given is probably a 

 misprint. In Maunbhoom the natives have an ingenious 

 method of catching this species alive, much as is described by 

 him ; and they frequently keep the female birds for fighting- 

 purposes. 



833. TuRNix ocELLATA*. Hill Bustard-Quail. 



A single specimen was once procured by me near Namtchi, 

 in Sikkim. 



834. TuRNix DUssuMiERif- Larger Button-Quail. 



This has been often shot by me in Lower Bengal and at 

 Julpigoorie ; but I have nothing further recorded of its range or 

 habits. 



835. TuRNix sYKEsi. Button- Quail. 



The late Dr. Scott, who sent specimens to the Montrose 

 Natural-History Society, records this species from Umballah. 

 It occurs frequently north of the hilly country about Mount 

 Parisnath, and in Maunbhoom occasionally, to the best of my 

 recollection. 



836. EupoDOTis EDWARDSi. Indian Bustard. 



I have lately received a fine pair of this large Bustard from 

 my brother, Lieut. Reginald Beavan, of the 22nd Punjab Native 

 Infantry, who shot the male near Morar, in Gwalior, and bought 

 the female from some native trappers, who catch them in that 

 neighbourhood and bring them into Morar for sale to the officers 

 and others who like them as a delicacy for the table. At Um- 

 ballah in 1866 I saw several alive, which Dr. Jerdon had brought 

 there, and which, I think, had been captured near the desert- 

 country about Hurriana or Suia ; but what he did with them 



* [Lege T.pmjnax; cf. Ibis, 1807, p. 101.— Ed.] 

 t [Lege T. tanki; cf. Ibis, )it siijmi. — Ed.] 



