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The Painted Partridge or Southern Francolin. (Vol. 

 II., pp. 19, et seq.) — 



Mr. J. G. Horsfall has kindly sent me a specimen of the 

 Partridge found in parts of the upland taluks of the Masuli- 

 patam district, and this proves to be No. 819, Francolinus pic- 

 tus, the Painted Partridge or Southern Francolin. 



The Grey Partridge. (Vol. II., pp. 51, et seq.) — 



" This despised bird is common in Shakawattee and Bikanir, 

 and appears to me to be very good eating there. The flesh was 

 more tender and juicy than usual, owing, I believe, to their 

 feeding on white-ants : these insects are easily got at in that 

 sandy country, as they work very much on the surface of the 

 ground." 



W. T. Heaviside, Captain, r.e. 



The Blue-breasted or Painted Quail. (Vol. II., pp. 161, 

 et seq.) — 



Mr. Laird writes to say that he had confounded two species, 

 and that the birds he got ten miles south of Belgaum prove to 

 have been the painted Bush Quail, and not this present species. 



At the same time I notice that Jerdon says that he recorded 

 one specimen in his catalogue from Belgaum. So that possibly a 

 straggler may occur in this district occasionally, though hitherto 

 neither Mr. Laird nor Captain Butler (who first drew atten- 

 tion to the matter) have met with it there. 



" With reference to the remarks in Volume II of " The Gamh 

 Birds,"" regarding the distribution of Excalfactoria chinensis, I 

 write to say that in December last I shot a pair of this species, 

 near Goodavancherrie, Chingleput district, some 20 miles 

 from Madras. I was shooting Snipe at the time, and got the 

 cock, but lost the female amonst the long grass." 



F. Bidie, Central Museum, Madras. 



The Burmo-Malayan Button-Quail. (Vol. II., pp. 183, 

 et seq.) — 



To Mr. H. Fasson, I am indebted for a fine specimen of Tur- 

 nix maculosa. The Burmo-Malayan Button-Quail, ehot on 

 the 13th December, at Jooykhola, Thanna Fatikchiri, district 

 Chittagong. 



