no Manual of the Game Birds of India. 



united endeavours, I had knocked over 

 six, of which we had failed to retrieve 

 one. The first bird had convinced me 

 that the species was new to me, and what 

 still more surprised me was that the 

 villagers one and all denied having ever 

 previously seen the bird. We were one 

 and all exhausted with pushing through 

 and through the thicket, and were so cut 

 and scratched by the grass and bruised 

 with stumbles in the broken ground that 

 we were scarcely able to get back to our 

 huts. But I had been very lucky. I 

 had dropped every bird that rose, some 

 of them very difficult shots. They had 

 risen singly and at long intervals. 



" Next day I let every one have a long 

 sleep, a good breakfast and a good smoke, 

 and by 10 a.m. we were again in the grass. 

 By three o'clock I had knocked down five 

 more, of which, however, we failed to find 

 one. After that we saw no more, and I 

 fully believe that these were only the 

 two coveys of six and five respectively 

 seen and counted by my people. I have 

 had many hard days' shooting in my life, 

 but never any harder than these two." 



I may add that these birds were shot 

 on the Qth and loth April. 



The male has the forehead, a streak over 



