2984 ROUGH LIST OF THE BIRDS OF WESTERN KHANDESH. 
there are a good many Quail, and I had very nice shooting at 
them one April in the Shada and Taloda talukas in the bazri 
stubbles. They are however local, but the shooting is very 
nice when they are numerous, varied as it is by Painted 
Partridges, a few of which generally find their way into the 
bag everywhere. 
There are few marshy places and not many tanks in Khan- 
desh, and except the Mukhti and Pawla tanks none are large. 
With the exception, however, of the Mukhti tank, which is 
rocky and has no feeding, they are generally well stocked with 
Duck and Teal. In Nizampur, particularly, some of the small 
tanks are very good, and as the native community there, 
reverencing the order of some forgotten superintendent of 
police not to disturb the Duck, reserve the shooting for the 
sahibs, capital sport may occasionally be got. The tanks, how- 
ever, are very small, and will not stand more than a couple of 
days shooting at a time, but the sport is good. One day I fired 
between 80 and 90 shots without moving, having waded out 
and got shelter behind a small bush. 
The results were disappvinting, as not having a dog, and no 
attempt being made to pick up the slain till I had exhausted 
all my cartridges, the wounded birds got lost in the reeds or 
swam out to the deep water, and we only picked up 33 or 
34 Duck. There are few Snipe round the tanks, and few other 
places where they are found. I have never got more than ten 
brace in a day, and that only on one oceasion. 
There are a few places also on the Tapti where Duck may 
generally be found, and fair shooting ean be got at them, par- 
ticularly if you have a boat and let it drift down the middle 
of the stream, as the Duck and Teal keep passing within shot 
being unwilling to leave the river. Sandgrouse are fairly 
common through the plains, and there are Peafowl in all the 
jungles, and a few Jungle Fowl in the Satpuras, but these can 
hardly be said to afford much sport. 
Now, however, to turn to my proper subject, the list of 
Khandesh birds; I find I have entered in all 294 species. 
Of these, however, Nos. 9, 40, 118, 194, 211, 285, 492, 
544bis, 705, 722, 842, 865, 908, 911, 934, and 1004 are entered 
as doubtful, as I have procured no specimens, and it is just 
possible that some mistake may have been made. 
Of the remaining species, all those marked with an asterisk, 
210 in number, have been submitted to Mr. Hume for verifica~ 
tion, and he has kindly verified, and in a good many cases 
corrected, my identifications; the rest are mostly large and 
common species, about which there can be no doubt, and which 
were not considered worth sending, An examination of the sketch 
which accompanies this, in which the portions of the district 
