162 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
Florican for a Bustard. My informant was very positive that 
the bird does come into the Ganges Kadir to breed. 
In my note on this bird, which is published in Vol. III. of 
he “ Game Birps,”’ I told you that the Bustard was not uncom- 
mon in the Mozuffernugger district. During the cold weather 
of 1879-80 a Bustard was shot in that district and brought into 
Roorkee. 
THe Benaat Fuorican, Vol. 1., page 25, et seq. 
In a late number of the Asian Mr. A. M. Markham states. 
that “the Bengal Florican is very common in the Kadir of 
the Ganges (right bank) in the Mozutter nuggur and Saharun- 
pore districts, especially in the former.’ 
I must beg to differ from Mr. Markham. The bird is occa- 
sionally met with in Mozuffernugeur, but it is very rare in the 
Saharunpore district. I shot from 1871 to 1879 steadily in the 
Ganges Kadir of the Saharunpore district, and never once came 
across the bird in it. During this long period I repeatedly 
shot in the Ganges Kadir of the Mozuffernuggur Tehsil, and 
on only one occasion did I kill, or even flush, a Florican. I 
shot too for three weeks one year in the Jansut Tehsil (Mo- 
zuffernuggur) which adjoins the Meerut district. I know the 
Ganges Kadir well from Hurdwar to Bhokaheri, fairly well 
from below that to the edge of the Meerut district. I have 
frequently shot over this countr y with two, three, and four 
guns. During all these years that 1 was in the Saharunpore 
district, this ‘tract was steadily shot too by the officers of the 
Roorkee garrison, and ridden over both by them and by the 
officers of the Meerut garrison, yet | never heard of a Florican 
having been killed by an officer of either garrison. I know 
that a brace or two of Florican are yearly killed in the Ganges 
Kadir somewhere between Hurdwar and the edge of the 
Aligurh district in the Kadir of the Ganges, but the bird can- 
not be said in this tract to be anywhere “ very common,” or 
even common. 
I saw a brace of Florican killed in the Doodla swamp, or 
rather near it, on the left bank of the Ganges in the Bijnore 
district. Colonel J. T. Watson of the Bengal Army killed a 
brace of Florican in the Ganges Kadir of the Saharunpore dis- 
trict, some ten or twelve years ago. I have heard of three or 
four’ brace of Florican having been killed by a party some years 
ago near the Seekree jheel, which is below Bhokaheri, in the 
Mozuffernugeur district. I have twice flushed Florican myself 
in the Sabarunpore district, once near Bussee, and once near 
Deobund. Neither place is in the Ganges Kadir or near it. 
