5Q4 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
(Game Birds, Vol. III, p. 202.) Unfortunately, I could not 
visit the jhil on which I killed it. 
G. Rippon, Lieut. 
Ortssa, 26th November, 1883. 
SIR, 
On Wednesday last, November 7th, I shot a Wood- 
cock in the Gurdaspur district, when out snipe-shooting in the 
low lands between thé Bari Doab canal and the Bias river, 
some two or three miles east of the Tehi Bungalow (four miles 
east from Gurdaspur) where the canal branches. He was 
flushed in comparatively hard but rather sloppy ground, sparsely 
covered with “phoos” grass, some five or six feet in height. 
None of my coolies who were here constantly employed with 
shooting parties in the neighbourhood, and far above the com- 
mon cooly in knowledge and intelligence, could say they had 
ever seen a similar bird. One youngster said he believed it to 
be the cock bird of the pin-tailed snipe. The bird was in fair 
condition, and weighed, in the evening, some seven hours after 
it was killed, about lloz. I have shot many years off and on 
in the neighbourhood, though usually later in the year, and 
never saw a Woodcock there before, and have never heard of 
any one seeing one there. 
H. M. PLOWDEN. 
LAHORE, November 13th, 1883. 
SIR, 
- IT aot a Naga Pheasant sent to me the other day from 
the Daffla hills by Mr. Crowe, who went on a visit to a Dafila 
tribe. oes wee + 
. The Dafflas informed him that they were very common on 
the lower ranges. . 
I showed it to Captain Stevens who at once identified it as 
the Ceriornis blythi, as hitherto only found on the Naga and 
Mishmee hills. 
RosBeRT Cran, M.D. 
NortH LAKHIMPUR, 
Upper AssAM, 18th April, 1883. 
Sir, | 
It has been my good luck lately to come across a 
beautiful specimen of Fulco severus (?), and as I cannot find 
a. good description of the female in either Jerdon, “S. F.” or 
