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really does recall the note to a certain 

 extent." 



There can be little doubt that this 

 Sand-Grouse breeds in Sind ; and it 

 probably breeds in other localities in 

 India, for Mr. R. H. C. Tufnell informs us 

 that these birds were extremely plentiful 

 in the August of one year at Rajanpur 

 on the Punjab frontier. 



Mr. Hume thus writes of a single egg 

 of this species, which I regret to say is no 

 longer in his collection : " A single egg 

 of this species I owe to Mr. William T. 

 Blanford, who extracted it from the body 

 of a female which he shot on the 

 2oth March, 1875, in the desert west of 

 Shikurpur, Upper Sindh. In shape and 

 size the egg is similar to that of P. exustus^ 

 but the markings are much more sparse 

 than in any egg of that species that I 

 have ever seen. The egg is of course 

 cylindro-ovoidal, the ground-colour is a 

 pale yellowish stone-colour, and the mark- 

 ings, which are thinly distributed over the 

 surface of the egg, consist of olive-brown 

 spots and tiny blotches with a few crooked 

 and hooked lines ; besides these, a few 

 pale lilac-purplish or inky grey spots, 

 streaks and smears having a sub-surface 

 appearance are scattered irregularly about 



