418 NOTES ON BIRDS OBSERVED IN THE REGION BETWEEN 



696 .— Ploceus bengalensis, Linn. 



I shot a male of this species in the grassy plains of Bustar, 

 and with it a female which seems to correspond in characters 

 rather with the female of P. baya than of this species. 



780.— Carpophaga senea, Linn. 



The only place where I actually saw this species daring- the 

 past season was within the Orissa zone, which I have previously 

 indicated ; hut from Captain Blaxland, the Assistant Agent in 

 charge of Jaipur, I heard of its occurrence in the neighbourhood 

 of Paparhandi, a town in Jaipur. This is at an elevation of 

 about 1,800 feet, or higher than any locality, whence it has 

 hitherto been recorded. This is probably the point where it 

 spreads across from the Eastern Zone, to which it is confined 

 further north, (vide S. F., IV., 236) into the southern central 

 Jungles of the peninsula. 



Capt. Blaxland told me of the occurrence of two other species 

 of Imperial Pigeon — one appeared to be the Woodchat of the 

 Nilgiris (Palumbus Elphinstonii, Sykes,) with which he was 

 familiar from having seen it in the Nilgiris ; the other from 

 the description by Jerdon he inclined to think might be Car- 

 pophaga insignis,* Hodg., but was not quite sure that he had not 

 also seen Alsocomus puniceus. I mention these species with 

 a view to the verification of their occurrence hereafter. 



814.— Galloperdix spadiceus, Gmel. 



I have two ? specimens of the Red Spur Fowl, one of which 

 I shot at Kukkur, 5 miles west of Cuttack, and the other at 

 Daramgarh in Patna, Sambalpur District, Neither of these speci- 

 mens I may mentioned have the slightest trace of spurs. 

 Since I have become more familiar with the appearance of these 

 birds I think it possible that I may have made a mistake as to 

 the identification of this species from a fragment of a skin 

 from Chutia Nagpur.f Regarding its occurrence there the 

 verdict for the present, therefore, ought to be non-proven. 



815.— Galloperdix lunulatus, Valenc. 



I have this species from Hingir, Rehrakale, Karial and Now- 

 a^arh, the latitudes of the two former localities are to the north, 

 these of the two latter to the south of the latitudes of the two 

 places given above for the Red Spur Fowl. 



Whatever may be the case in other parts of the country 

 therefore there is here, in the valleys of the Mahanadi and 



* liather C. cuprea, Jcrd. — .2d., S. F. 

 f S. F., III., p. 294. 



