A NOTE ON PODOCES PLESKEI. D'57 



" I shot the fawn-coloured Chough in a nullah with small bushes 

 in it in January. The nullah was in the middle of a desert in Kain ; 

 the place, Mahomedabad. We turned a lot of hares out of this nullah 

 and were shooting them, getting over a dozen, I believe, and these 

 birds kept flying in front of us in pairs. I must have seen aboui 

 eight of them, and after the shoot was over I went back and shot the 

 specimen." 



Again on 27th June 1906, Capt. Watson writes: " I happened to 

 pass the place in which I shot the specimen of the Ground-Chough. 

 I noticed a pair of them flying and hopping about, but, as they evi- 

 dently were breeding, I did not shoot one. I was on the march and 

 a very short search for their nest was unsuccessful. I think this bird 

 will always be found in the same or similar places, viz., in strips of 

 bushy jungle which run across the plain between Tighab and Kalata 

 Yusuff in Kain, north of Birjand. The birds run along the ground 

 and occasionally perch on the Asafoetida plants, but I cannot say 

 whether the latter are the attraction to them although there are 

 a number of the plants on this desert. The bushes are Tamarisk and 

 full of hares."— Eds.]. 



