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equally frantic with gi'ief and pleasure when they see the young 

 caught and let loose again. 



The young birds have head, sides of neck, and breast black, 

 with rufous tips to the feathers. The back is a pale-brown 

 with a greenish tinge, all the feathers being edged with rufous 

 white. The wattle in the specimen before me is about a tenth 

 of an inch long, and this, together with the eyelids, base of bill, 

 and legs are all pale-yellow. 



859. — (Edicnemus crepitans, Temm. 



I have only met with the stone plover in the scrub jungle 

 near to Mata Pahar and the low range of hills to the west of 

 Nawa. At the latter place I saw a party of four. 



Female, length, 16"5 ; expanse, 29; wing, 9"1 ; tail, 4'*7 ; 

 tarsus, 3*3 ; bill at front, 1*9; from gape, 2"1. 



863.— Grus antigone, L. 



The Sarus is very common, and although generally seen 

 in pairs, I have seen as many as thirty young and old 

 feeding together. Although the people of Rajputana do 

 not worship the bird, they object to its being shot, and they 

 look upon the killing of the pair as a lesser sin than the killing 

 of one. Should one of a pair be killed, the native belief is that 

 the surviving bird calls all the long-night for its mate, and 

 beats its head on the ground until it dies. I took the eggs of 

 this bird on the 23rd August. The nest was in a patch of 

 grass land flooded by the rains. One bird was on the nest, and 

 the other was standing near, but neither showed any inclination 

 to fight. 



865.— Grus cinerea, Bechst. 



I have only seen one flock of this species about the lake, and 

 that was during last cold weather. 



866. — Anthropoides virgo, L. 



This crane visits the neighbourhood in large flocks during the 

 cold weather. On the 13th March 1873 I saw a flock in a 

 field near to INawa, but I did not get a shot at them. 



871.— Gallinago scolopacina, Bp. 



Owing to the entire want of marsh land, this species is rarely 

 met with in any number. During the cold weather I have 

 shot one or two about the banks of the open wells. 



872.— Gallinago gallinula, L. 



Very rare. I have only procured one specimen. 



