492 THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA. 



'' I have known four or five killed of a morning witliin a few- 

 miles of Samulcottah, a now deserted military cantonment 

 seven miles from Coconada." 



Charles McInroy, Major. 



HOONSOOR. 



The Large or Black-Bellied Sand-Grouse. (Vol. I., 

 pp. 47 et seq.) — 



" I have just heard that Pterocles arenarius was found 

 breeding in numbers on the Wuzeer Korey plain, about ten 

 miles from Kandahar, just too late for the work, and, alas! 

 no eggs were taken as the discoverers did not wish to disturb 

 the birds." 



C. H. T. Marshall, Major. 

 Simla. 



The Painted Sand-Grouse. (Vol. I., pp. 59 et seq.) — 



" You mention that this species does extend to Mysore ; this 

 is true but it is extremely rare there. The following are the only 

 two instances in which I have met with it during five years of 

 travelling in all parts of the Province, while especially 

 in the Chittaldroog District, the Common Sand-Grouse is in 

 legions. 



" 2drd January 1879. — Two brace near Ramgherry, 

 Hosdurga Taluk, Chittaldroog district, Mysore. One brace 

 in hilly jungly ground ; the other brace on the plain, within 

 \ mile of the village of Ramgherry, still there were a few 

 bushes. I shot a brace of the Common Sand-Grouse within 

 a few yards of these. In the first case there were three birds, 

 in the other a pair only. 



'' \st February 1879.— Bukambidi, Tarikere Taluk, Kadur 

 District, Mysore. One brace out of three birds. Scrub jungle 

 at foot of a hill." 



Charles McInroy, Major. 

 Hoonsoor. 



The Common Pea-Fowl. (Vol. I., pp. ^let seq.) — 



"You say, page 90, that Pea-Fowl breed in June, July, and 

 August ; but in the Dhun here, we find the eggs about the end 

 of April, and early in May they are plentiful enough." 



Frederic Wilson. 



HurdwAR, iVowmSer lO^/i, 1879. 



