168 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
in the double word), or “ Mirage Pea Fowl,” from the Tamil 
words Kanal, meaning Mirage, and Myle, a Pea Fowl. The 
Bustard come to these plains (in Tinnevelly and Madura) about 
September and October. 
In the Kurnool district (Deccan) Bustard are often to be had 
in the cold weather. 
In the first week of June this year a Florican (hen, of 
the Lesser Florican or Likh) was caught near this place, 
Rajahmundry, by a native shikari, and brought in to me. I 
have never before come across them in this district so early as 
this. I have shot three and four of a morning in December and 
January. About Ongole, in the Nellore district of this Presi- 
dency, there are plenty of Florican. 
RAJAHMUNDRY, CHarLes A. TostEms, 
10th July 1881. Major, Staff? Corps. 
Sir, 
Tue following notes may be useful :— 
1st.—The Pink-footed Goose (Anser brachyrhynchus). I shot 
one of these out of a flock of about 20, on the Kanawan jheel, 
near Gurdaspore, Punjab, in 1853, with a bullet. 
2nd.—Whistling Teal (Dendrocygna javanica). The first I 
ever shot was at Kishnagur, near Calcutta, in 1849, and the 
next I shot was at Firoza, Bhawulpore, in 1879. 
3rd.—The Shieldrake (Tadorna cornuta). I shot a pair of these 
in 1873 on some salt lakes in the sand hills between the 
Chenab and the Indus, near Moozuffernuggur. 
4th—In December 1879 I shot several Marble Duck at 
Firoza (183 miles down Indus Valley Railway) in the 
Bhawulpore territory, and also near Gurdaspore, Punjab. 
5th.—In December 1879, at Firoza, Bhawulpore, I shot a 
female Anas falcata. I had it stuffed, and I showed it to 
Major Marshall who was then at Lahore, and he said it was 
a female Anas falcata. 
6th.—In May 1878 I shot a female Merganser at Tangrote 
Ferry, on the Poonch river. 
Conoor, J. H. McLeop, Major-General 
Sth February 1881. Retired R. A. 
Sir, 
I sEE you say at page 12, Vol. II., of the “ Gaur 
Birps,”’ that you yourself have never seen the Black Partridge 
calling from off a tree. I may mention that this morning (April 
15th, 1881) I watched for some time a Black Partridge (male) 
