THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA. 493 



" It may interest you to know that I lately shot a Pea-Fowl 

 in the MozufFernuggur district, similar to the one described by 

 you in your book, as being ' a hen of a uniform dirty yellow 

 color/ My bird was more white than yellow. I flushed the 

 bird in a cotton field at dusk, and at the moment believed I had 

 put up a turkey.^' 



F. W. Butler. 



RooRKEE, January 1880. 



The Aracan Silver-Pheasant. (Vol, I., pp. 201 et seq.) — 



" I am as certain as it is possible to be^without having procur- 

 ed the specimen, that I saw this bird in the extreme north of 

 the Changree Valley (N. L. 23° 17") in Chittagong. I emerged 

 suddenly upon the river one evening whilst shooting, and saw a 

 beautiful Pheasant run from the water's edge on the far side 

 into a thicket. It was only about thirty yards distant. I have 

 been puzzled ever since to know what it could have been, until 

 your " Game Birds" appeared, when I recognized the descrip- 

 tion at once. The Black-Breasted Kalij was common, and I had 

 shot numbers of them in the same locality, so there is no chance 

 of my having mistaken the Aracan Silver Pheasant for the 

 Kalij. The splendid blue of the bird I saw was very striking. 

 It was of slender make, and very shy, and quick in its move- 

 ments. I only had a rifle in hand or could have secured it." 



G. P. Sanderson. 



Dacca, 5tk October 1879. 



The Grey Jungle-Fowl. (Vol. I., pp. 231 et seq.) — 



'' Mr. Davidson says (p. 235) : — ' The Grey Jungle-Cock, 

 «ven at the best, is veiy dry and hard.' This is correct literally 

 as to the old cock, but most people would suppose it to apply to 

 the species, and if so, it cannot be said to be so everywhere, as a 

 young bird of either sex is most palatable and gamey, when 

 hung for a day or two. This applies to Mysore.'"' 



Charles McInroy, Major, 



HOONSOOR. 



The Painted Spur-Fowl. (Vol. I, pp. 255 et seq.) — 



" I have just examined a skin of this species shot near Gokak, 

 about 40 miles north-north-west of Belgaum. The man who 



