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Ghats, in the valley of the Indrayani, immediately below the 
celebrated Buddhist excavations. Karli is not above five 
miles from the “ Great Divide” of the range. As the species 
generally avoids forest country, I should not have expected 
it to occur so near the Ghat edge. I found the birds however, 
and looked in vain for the forests. The country hereabout 
has much more of a plains facies than one would expect from 
its close proximity to the Ghat watershed. Here and there 
is a tiny patch of thick jungle which has escaped the axe, 
only because it is sacred to a rustic deity. But the hill sides 
generally are bleak and bare, while in the valley below lie 
rice and wheat fields, alternating with stretches of desiccated 
flats riddled all over by burrowing land crabs, and covered 
in patches with coarse hummocky thatch grass. This grass 
and the bushes and hedges round the fields provide all the 
cover wanted by the Partridges. I flushed a few, however, 
in a temple grove with thick undergrowth where possibly 
they had nests, which I failed to discover. 
G. VIDAL. 
May 2nd 1881. 
P. 8.—Having kept the above till now Iam able to add that I 
have since found Painted Francolins at one or two other localities 
near the Western Ghats, viz., at Khadkalla on the G. I. P., 
ten miles east of Karli, and in the same valley, and again 
in the valley north of the Karli caves, at a point rather nearer 
the edge of the Ghats than Karli. 
GaN. 
June 27th, 1881. 
Sir, 
I senp a few further notes in regard to birds men- 
tioned in your GAME Birps :— 
Tae Lesser Frorican or Lika, Vol. I., page 33, et seq. 
Mr. W. G. Probyn, C.S., in 1872, shot a Likh near Koomar- 
heira, in the Saharunpore district. I never heard before or 
since of the Likh having been met with in the Saharunpore or 
any adjacent district. 
Tue Great Inpran BustarD, Vol. 1., page 7, e& seq. 
I have been informed that this bird was seen during the 
cold weather of 1879-80 in the Budaon district. It is said to 
breed in this district. My informant was a native, however, 
and: I cannot be certain as to whether he has not mistaken a 
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