172 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
Str, 
THe following scraps may be interesting, although 
you probably know all about them already :— 
I saw no Pintail Snipe in Pishin, Shorawak, the Bolan, or 
Hurnai passes, or at Muskaff or Dadur; all that I shot were 
Jack or Common. 
The season of 1876-77 was a good snipe season in 
Hyderabad, Deccan, and I noticed that the Pintail outnumbered 
the Common by three to one; putting aside Jack and Painters, 
three birds, out of four would be Pintail. 1877-78 and 1878-79 
were indifferent seasons, and I found that the Pintail were much 
more rare, the Common being in the majority. My own idea 
is that the Common were as plentiful as usual, and the Pintail 
for some season had not come into the district as they had 
done in 1876-77. 
G. M. Rayment, Vety. Surgeon, 
BANGALORE, 1st M. Light Cavalry. 
June 12th, 1881. 
Sim 
In Vol. III of your work on the “Game Birps 
of Inp1A,”’ you write (page 382): “1 haveno record of the oc- 
currence of this species (the Painted Snipe) in Kulu, Kashmir,” 
and I have, therefore, enclosed to you the skin of a bird of this 
species which I shot at Sumbul, on a sheet of the Woollar 
Lakes, on the 14th September this year. I shot three others the 
same morning, all like the one I send, which I opened and found 
to be a male. The birds sat very close, not rising till close upon 
them, consequently the others I shot were too much injured 
to skin. The wing feathers I enclose are those of a bird shot 
at Bunnir near the Woollar by an officer of the 65th, who 
also saw numbers. I do not however think I saw any females— 
at least I did not secure one. I do not think the Painted 
Snipe remains long in Cashmere, as, though I was out several 
days shooting after the middle of September, I saw very 
few. 
Epwarp L. Hawkins, 
Morar, Lieutenant-Colonel, R.A. 
9th November 1881. 
Sir, 
Just a line to inform you that I have an addition* 
to the Sind List in the shape of Crrous cineRaceus, Mont. 
* No, vide Vol, VII, p. 603.—Ep., 8, F. 
