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Cutch and Northern Guzerat. In the 

 British Museum there is a specimen 

 which is said to have been obtained by 

 Colonel Swinhoe at Mhow, probably by 

 mistake, as this naturalist does not include 

 this bird in the list of birds of Central India 

 which he wrote conjointly with the late 

 Lieut. H. E. Barnes, in the Ibis for 1885. 



This Sand-Grouse extends through 

 S. W. Asia to Northern Africa. 



Mr. Hume observes : " Numerous as 

 the Spotted Sand-Grouse are in certain 

 localities in Sind, they are, as a rule, only 

 met with within a comparatively narrow 

 zone : that within which the inundation 

 tracts abut on the dry uplands, and culti- 

 vation and desert inosculate. In the 

 immediate neighbourhood of the hills 

 themselves I never saw them, except in 

 parties, coming up for a few minutes to 

 drink at some perennial stream, close to 

 where it debouches from the hills ; and 

 again I equally missed them well down 



into the heart of the cultivated area 



Their note is peculiar, and has been 

 happily described as a gurgling sound, 

 not unlike that produced by blowing 

 through a small tube, one end of which 

 is immersed in water. It has been syl- 

 labled as quidle^ quidle^ qtddle, and this 



