LETTERS To THE EDITOR. 423 
SIR 
In the Game Birds of India, you say in your descrip- 
tion of Grus communis or the Kullang that you have never 
seen it before the 3rd of October. I may tell you I saw a 
flock consisting of from eight to ten of the above birds pass 
over this station on the 25th September last. I may also 
add that yesterday, the 8th of October, I saw a pair of Gadwal 
on a small jhil about eight miles distant. 
The Kullang were proceeding in a _ westerly direction, 
evidently towards the Sutlej river. 
H. A. Kinuocn, Lieut., 
FEROZEPORE. 60th Rifles. 
Sir, 
I HAVE one addition and a few unimportant correc- 
tions to make to the ‘“ First List of the Birds of the South 
Konkan,” published at pp. 1 to 96 of Vol. IX of Srray 
Featuers. Since I left Ratnagiri my former shikari sent 
me a skin of the following species :— 
902*—PorPHYRIO POLIOCEPHALUS, Lath. 
The specimen was shot at Malvan in November 1880. I 
never saw or heard of it myself in the South Konkan, and its 
occurrence must be rare. The local vernacular name for the 
species is said to be Kambala fite. Capt. Butler says it is rare 
in the Deccan, and that he did not find it in the neighbour- 
hood of Belgaum. I found a small colony of purple Coots 
last year in the reeds in the Patas tank in the Poona district. 
This makes the total number of species reeorded 286, 
instead of 284 as entered in the list, one species having pre- 
viously escaped enumeration. Of these 269 have been verified 
by the Editor, not 266, as stated at page 3. The remaining 
17 unverified species are as follows :— 
4. Gyps indicus, (probably 4bis. G. pallescens.) 
Dd. Pseudogyps bengalensis. 
6. Neophron ginginianus. 
63. Syrnium indranee. 
115. Harpactes fasciatus. 
119. Merops Swinhoiti. 
145. Tockus griseus. 
166. Chrysocolaptes sultaneus. 
198. Megalema malabarica, 
767. <Alauda gulgula. 
796. Turtur risorius. 
902. Porphyrio poliocephalus (newly added). 
911. Porzana fusca. 
952. Dendrocygna javanica. 
