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Captain Butlers measurements ouly confirm what I say. 

 All his stenuras were clearly females, and so were all his 

 scolopaci?uts, except the fourth on his list, which was probably 

 a male.— A. 0. H.] 



888. — Calidris arenaria, Tem. 



Mr. Hume also mentions the Sanderling, Vol. IV., p. 496, 

 as obtained by Mr. James at Maadavee. 



909. — Porzana maruetta, Brisson. 



I find that the English Spotted Rail is one of the rails I 

 referred to as having been probably passed over, " S. F.," 

 Vol. III., p. 440. Mr. James shot specimens at Padaria, about 

 7 miles north-east of Langraij, between Deesa and Ahmedabad, 

 last December, and forwarded two good skins to me for identi- 

 fication. It is not very common, as a rule, but Mr. James in- 

 forms me that they were tolerably plentiful where his speci- 

 mens were procured. Like all of the rails they affect swampy 

 ground, rice fields, sugarcane fields, &c, occurring ouly in the 

 cold weather. 



910— Zapornia pygmaea, Naum. 



I found Baillon's Crake very common at Milana, 18 

 miles north-east of Deesa, in September, and later on in the 

 season I found it in many of the tanks between Deesa and 

 Ahmedabad. It is by no means shy and runs along the 

 surface of the water over the lotus leaves, <fec, much like a 

 Jacana. I fancy it is migratory, as it appeared to me to be 

 scarce at the end of August, and in September I saw any 

 number of them. Six eggs said to belong to this species were 

 brought to me at Milana on the 26th September. They were 

 taken by one of my own nest seekers in a small clump of 

 bulrushes growing out in a tank, and the nest, which he 

 pointed out to me the following day, was built in the rushes 

 about three or four feet from the water and looked for all the 

 world like a miniature nest of C. chloropus, being composed of 

 the same material (sedge and rush) and constructed in exactly 

 the same manner. The eggs are much in size and shape like 

 Rain Quails' eggs, and in color correspond exactly with the eggs 

 of Zapornia pygm&a described "Nests and Eggs," p. 604, viz., 

 i( pale olive stone colour, thickly freckled and mottled with faint 

 dusky spots, and streaks all of which are dull, inconspicuous 

 and ill-defined/' At first I doubted that the eggs belonged to 

 this species for the following reasons : — Firstly, of the several 

 specimens I shot, only one or two had the sexual organs at all 



