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trudges one can still get 10 or 12 brace to one gun in a day’s shoot, 
and, with luck, even 20 couple may grace the game-bag where they are 
most numerous. a 
For the table they are dry, but not ill-flavoured, and some people 
prefer them to the Grey and Black Partridges and even to Jungle- 
fowl. 
ALECTORIS GRECA: PALLESCENS, 
Hume’s Chukor. 
- Caccabis pallescens—Hume and Hend., Lahore to Yark., p. 383 
(1875), (Kashgar) ; Scully, Str: Feath. IV., p. 182 (1876). 
Caccabis pallidus—Hume and Hend., Lahore to Yark., p. 284 
(1873) ; Forsyth, P.Z.S., 1874, p. 324 (Kashgar) ; Scully, Str. Feath., 
TV., p. 183, (1876) ; Sharpe, 2nd Yark, Miss., Aves, p. 121, (1891). 
Caccabis saxatilis chukor—Witherby, Ibis, 1903, pp. 504, 570 (S.-W. 
Persia) ; id., ibid. 1907, p. 108 (W. Persia), 
Caccabis kakelik humei.—Falk., Sarudny, Mess. Orn. Moskva, 5, 
p. 52 (1914). 
Caccabis chukor—Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 119 (S. Afghanistan) ; 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1886, p. 498 (Bushire) ; Meinertzhagen, J. B. N. H. & 
XXIII, p. 363, (1914), (Quetta). Cumming, ibid. XXVI., p. 294 
(1918), (Fao). 
Alectoris greca pallescens—Hartert, Nov. Zool., XXIV., p. 286 
(1917). 
Vernacular Names.—As in the last. Keklik, (Turki). 
Descrijtion.—This form of Chukor differs from the lasé in its much 
paler general tint. 
Distribution—Extreme North of Kashmir, Lek, Ladak, Eastern 
Turkestan, Yarkand. 
Nidification.—Dr. Sently records of this form :— 
“Tt breeds from May to June, usually at an elevation of about 
6,000 feet. On the 5th June a nest of the Chukor was found at 
Kakin Powah ; it was on the ground under the edge of a rock, 
and well sheltered by ferns and small bushes. The nest was a 
nice pad of grass and leaves, and contained 7 nearly fresh eggs, 
which were neatly arranged, 6ina circle, with the small ends 
pointing inwards, and the 7th egg filling up the centre.” 
Again he writes :— 
“In the hills bounding the plains of Kashgaria on the south, 
at elevations of from 6,000 to over 12,000 feet, the birds were 
numerous near willow-bushes and streams. On the 30th August 
near Gulgun Shah, at an elevation of about 12,500 feet I found 
a nest of this species containing only 3 eggs. The nest was com- 
posed of a few leaves and fibres, placed in a slight depression in 
the ground, and covered over by a bush.” 
