490 THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA. 



Game Birds will assist me with such additional informatioH 

 supplementary to what I have published, as they may possess. 

 There is probably no single sportsman who could not contribute 

 some one or two facts that would help to complete my 

 unavoidably imperfect accounts, and it is a great pity that 

 they cannot be induced to place those facts on record. 



The Editor of the Asian has most liberally furnished a channel 

 for their immediate publication, and the only trouble involved 

 is, therefore, to jot down what has to be said, and despatch the 

 note to me, " Allahabad." Surely we might expect brother 

 sportsmen to take this much trouble towards perfecting a work 

 in which all must be more or less interested. 



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



" There are always at this time of the year (November 10th) 

 a few of the Great Indian Bustard east of Mozuflfernuggur, 

 on the high ground just before the dip into the Ganges Kadir. 

 My son had a rifle shot at one, and so had my assistant, both 

 missing. 1 myself came across a flock of sixteen one day, but 

 did not get a shot. I shall probably go down to that direction 

 this cold weather, and will try and send you one.-" 



Frederick Wilson. 

 Hurdwar, November lOtJi, 1879. 



" You say that the Great Indian Bustard does not occur in 

 the North- Western Provinces, north and east of the Jumna, 

 but some few birds of this species are really always to be 

 found in the Mozuflfernuggur district all through the year. 



" I yesterday put one up about six miles from my house, a 

 cock. I saw a dead bird some years ago, that had been killed 

 for Mr. George Palmer, c.s. An inspector of mine wounded 

 a cock badly last January. Some years ago, while riding 

 across from Roorkee to Bijnour, I saw a number of birds on 

 some sandhills, which I then believed to be Vultures. I had 

 then never seen the Great Bustard, I was struck by the birds, 

 and watched them for some time. Eventually I rode into 

 them, and put them up ; this was during the rains. I have no 

 doubb now, especially after reading your remarks (p. 11,) that 

 these birds were Bustards. 



" Between the line of the railway and the Ganges canal, 

 from near Roorkee to, I believe, Ghazeeabad, there runs a 

 broken range of sandhills. Along this tract, right and left of 

 the range, the land is high and sandy (bhoor), and here Bus- 

 tards are to be found. I cannot positively assert that they 



