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crosses that river. It h common in the hills on the Gya and 

 Shahabad sides of the river." 



W. Forsyth. 



The Himalayan Snow-Cock. (Vol. I., pp. 268, et seq.) — 

 "Here, in Chamba, they call the Snow -Cock Galound." 



C. H. T. Marshall, Major. 



Lieutenant Fairbrother, of the 29th P. N. I., writing from 

 Kurrum, 29th June 1880, says : — u A party which ascended the 

 highest peak (Seetaram, 15,000 feet) a week ago, came across a 

 brood of Snow-Cock, and captured all the chicks (nine I think), 

 but later released them. The parents were not obtained, though 

 fired at with a small rifle, the party having no gun." As no 

 specimens were preserved, we cannot even yet be quite positive 

 what the species is that inhabits the Safaid Koh, but there is 

 little doubt that it is the same as the Himalayan one. 



" It may be interesting to your readers to know that, in 

 1875, 1 myself shot the Himalayan Snow-Cock, about 13,000 

 feet above sea level, above the Neelni Nulla in Cashmere. The 

 best description of the place, where I actually shot these birds, 

 will be to say that I found them on high ridges above the Upper 

 Trisangum Nulla, about four easy marches from Bundypur, on 

 the Wuller Lake. I myself only found them in this particular 

 place, but I have no doubt that there are plenty of them scat- 

 tered over the district surrounding Grurais and Tilail; subject 

 to the condition they would not be found lower down than 

 about 13,000 feet at any rate prior to the end of September. 



" Above this altitude I believe they occur throughout the 

 higher spurs of the Haramook mountain, &e. 



" Where I shot the birds I could have killed a good many as 

 there was a large pack thereabouts, and they were certainly the 

 tamest game birds I ever came across. The largest of the two I 

 shot was a male ; it weighed 81bs., and measured over 30 inches 

 in length, and 44 in expanse. The other was a female not 

 very much smaller, but wanting the blunt spurs. What struck 

 me particularly about these birds was their tameness and sin- 

 gularly musical call. When walking they carry their tails like 

 an ordinary hen." 



A. C. Bruce, r.e. 



