LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 509 
[The Spotted Sand Grouse has now been recorded from nu- 
merous localities in Sindh, (Vol. I., p. 221; Vol. II., p. 267), 
from Kutch, Kattiawar, and Northern Guzerat (Vol. IV., p. 4) 
along the shores of the Runn (Vol. III., p. 418), and from Shah- 
poor, on the Jhelum inthe Punjaub (Vol. IL, p. 331). Shah- 
poor the most northern, and Patree the most southern locality, 
where this species has yet been obtained, are about 650 miles 
apart, nearly due north and south, both being between the 72nd 
and 78rd parallels of east longitude. 
This new locality, Tookaram, is almost exactly half way 
between these two.—Eb., 8. F.] 
Sir 
; By tTo-pAy’s post I have sent you a Green Magpie 
which I shot about a month ago about seven miles up above 
where the Ganges leaves the Himalayas. He was hopping about 
in low jungle close to the Ganges. Ihave shown and described 
the bird to many people—Wilson among the rest—and none of 
them, either Europeans or natives, have ever seen it before. 
The only time I ever saw one was last winter in the Sal 
hills, in the Garhwal Bhabur ; my brother shot at it and winged 
it, but could not catch it. 
It may bea common bird in some parts of India; but, I think, 
it must be very rare inthe N. W. P. and Panjab, or I surely 
should have seen it oftener.—G. GreiG, Conservator of Forests, 
IN Wes, 2. 
Camp, 26th December 1875. 
[The bird sent is Cissa speciosa. I cannot remember ever 
seeing it west of the Ganges, but at Jewlee, immediately below 
Nynee Tal, and everywhere eastwards in the Sub-Himalayan 
ranges, it is common enough.—Ep., S. F.] 
Sir, 
[ KILLED a brace of Totanus fuscus on the 8th of 
. May in full summer or breeding plumage, out of a large flock I 
saw ina jhill in the extreme N W of the Allahabad district, where 
they were associated with numbers of Himantopus candidus, Me- 
tapodius indicus, Hydrophasianus chirurgus, Khynchea benga- 
lensis, and other resident birds. TJ. fuscus has the reputation of 
breeding at the north pole, or at all events within the arctic 
circle, and so it may for all 1 know; but our birds I am con- 
vinced breed somewhere within a few hundred miles off where 
