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The Great Indian Bustard. (Vol. I., pp. 7, et seq.) — 

 " I have seen Bustard in the Betul District between Badnur 

 and Muttaie, and once near Satna (between Jabalpur and 

 Allahabad) ; in the latter instance the bird was close to the 

 Railway when the train passed, and did not appear to mind 

 the rattle and noise. I was surprised, for I had always ima- 

 gined them to be very shy birds." 



J. A. Betham. 



The Bengal Florican. (Vol. I., pp. 23, et seq.) — 



To Mr. F. A. Shillingford, of the Kholassy Factory, 

 Purneah, I am indebted for the first egg of this species that 

 I have succeeded in procuring. 



This egg is of the same type as regards texture and colour- 

 ation as many of those which I possess of the Great Indian 

 Bustard and Lesser Florican, but is intermediate in size, and 

 conspicuously more elongated than those of either of the 

 others. It is more of the shape of a hen's egg, but rather 

 more elongated than this even, and decidedly more compressed 

 towards the small end. The shell is firm and strong, smooth 

 and compact, but has little gloss. The pore-pittings are very 

 inconspicuous. 



The ground colour is a dull pale green stone colour, and it 

 is rather sparingly streaked and blotched with dull, rather pale 

 brown, somewhat greyer in some spots, more olivaceous in 

 others. 



It measures 2 "6 inches in length by 1*76 in breadth. 



Mr. Shillingford says : — 



" The Florican's egg I myself picked up in June last. The 

 female bird was seated on it when I first saw her about five 

 yards distant ; when she rose I found one egg. There was no 

 attempt at a nest; the egg was lying on damp mud with the 

 few blades of grass that were growing near trodden dowu. 

 Young birds have several times been caught in this district." 



" The Bengal Florican is very common in the Khadir of 

 the Ganges (right bank) in the Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur 

 districts, especially the former. 



"In May 1871, I shot a hen Florican in the Patli Dun, on 

 the banks of the Ramganga, many miles inside the outer 

 range of the gwasi-Siwalik Himalayas. 



" On the 5th of February at Mahewa, close to the Jumna, in 

 the extreme west of this, the Allahabad district, I twice put 

 up a hen Florican (S. bengalensis of Jerdon) ; not the small 

 Leek Florican {S. auritus of Jerdon) of Central India, but the 



