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without exception. Out of 63 Snipe killed by self anda 
friend, within the last few weeks (end of March and beginning 
of April) 59 were Pintails, 3 Fantails. and 1 Painted Snipe. 
However, this next season I will keep an account carefully, and 
let you know the result. 
Painted Snipe are rather rare. We have only killed six 
altogether all through the season, shooting every week, and I 
have only seen one more, so that I think they cannot be very 
common. 
Jack Snipe are not at all uncommon. I see from my diary 
that on November 21st last year, out of 22 Snipe I killed, four 
were Jacks, and in the early part of the season, from October 
to the end of November, every time we went out we used to 
get a few Jacks, though, excepting the day I have mentioned, 
we never got more than three in one day. 
Golden Plover occur here in enormous quantities throughout 
the cold weather. I mention this as I hear they are rather 
scarce in Cachar. 
I fancy many other kinds of Wild Fowl occur here, but I 
have only mentioned those I have been able to identify. For 
instance I faney the Grey Duck and Gadwall must occur here, 
but I have not as yet been able to identify them. 
Mirzavore Tza Estate, SYLHET, M. Epen. 
6th April 1881. 
Sir, 
By same post I send you a skin just received from a 
friend in Bombay for identification. Is itnot male Ezcalfactoria 
chinensis* ? 
I think you have never heard of it in these parts. 
Some years ago I got one ina gram field quite surrounded 
by high and well irrigated sugarcane crops here in Poona. 
This one was procured near the Vehar Lake, Bombay. 
Poona, H. WenpDeEn. 
13th November 1881. 
Sir, 
I write to inform you of my having succeeded in 
getting a Sula, which, from your description of the Boobies in 
Volume V of Srray Fratuers, I believe to be cyanops. 
The measurements agree fairly with Captain Butler’s in 
page 307, and the only differences I find are that the irides 
in my specimen were lemon yellow and not pale green ; and 
instead of the plumage of head, back, and underparts being 
* Yes.—Ep., 8. F, 
