1880.] MR. G. E. DOBSON ON THE HEAD OF A PARTRIDGE. 539 



Major Money has kindly favoured me with the subjoined notes unoa 

 th,s interesting animal, which is new to the Society's ColIectTon?- 



sarak i n fhl T ^ ^'n ""^ ?''' ^''^''''' = '^''y ^''^ ''^^S^^^ ^t His- 

 from k\T xIu ^'t'^' ^'^^''" ^"^"^ ^"^ Guzui, about 40 miles 

 from Kabul. When I first caught them, in May kst, though the 

 weather was not then very cold, I once or twice found them hi the 

 morning quite stiff from the cold, and had to revive them by putt n' 

 h box in the sun. I took to filling their box with cotton-w^ooP buf 



o ufed :i:eT"' ^^ \ ''^"^'i ''r ^^^^^ ^^^ ^'^htly entangleS i; U 

 so 1 used sheep s wool chopped short, and soon found that the little 

 captives appreciated a comfortable berth. 



JJt "^"f ''•'"' '■ t!'- '" ^''^'! "' ^^' S''"'^"'^ «t ^" seasons, as far as I 

 could a certain. It is not often seen in the day. feeds at night on all 



bi t th?e?'' ^"''r\'^n' '' '''i'''"' ^^'^'- '° i^« "«tu?al state : 

 tent kT fw '•' "" ^'-^ '""'■'^ ^™"^ ^^bul (up to 115° in 



thevlLif 7' iT ^"^'°''' '' '"^ ^P^"""^"^ would have died; for 

 they would drink from a tea-spoon at all times. 



could nofT^^^'.r^'u^ r' \^T'S "'"^"' "^^^ ^e" and healthy, but 



could not stand the heat, and died at Peshawur when all its wor t 



roubles were over. I had been told that I should never succeed Tn 



hbklh^'™ 'n'^."^''"K ^ "\^ ^^^^ *^^-^ "'^t shared my umbre la, ? 

 think this would have been the case. I fed them on green wheat 



ir an?d;;tscr''' ''''"'-' -^ p°^^^-^ -^ ^-^ -^^ -"^ 



Mr Sclater laid upon the table a skin of the beautiful Guinea- 

 fowl from Zanzibar lately described by Mr. Bartlett (P. Z. S 1877 

 p. b52. pi. Ixv.) asNumida elHoti, of which the Society had receutlv 

 received several living examples. ^ recemiy 



Dr. Cabanis. to whom the skin in question had been forwarded for 

 comparison had declared it to be the same ^. Numida pucherani 

 Hartlaub(J P.O. 1860, p. 341); and Mr. Sclater was iLli ed to 

 agree vnth this vi.w. It was evident that Mr. Bartlett had been 

 misled by the inaccurate colouring of the head given in Mr. Elliot's 

 figure of Numida pvcherani (Monogr. Phasian. vol. ii. pi xl^ ) in 

 which the whole side of the head is coloured blue ins? ad of rei 

 as accurately represented in Mr. Bartlett's figure. 



\r^^n S; ?-.2°,'''°'' exhibited the head of a Partridge shot by 

 J o"vS oi S::^'^ '' Ashley near Stockbridge. in whicfi excessivl 

 growth of the intermaxillary bones had caused the upper mandible 

 to project nearly halt its entire length beyond the lower. The palatine 

 bones were normal ; and no trace of previous injury to the beak 

 which might account for the excessive growth, could be traced 



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