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them blows them to atoms or results in a miss. Now and 
then we been able to get specimens sufficiently good to iden- 
tify. I have many times seen the Indian Bustard Quail 
(Turnizx taigoor) and Perdicula asiatica running about within 
a couple of feet or so of the bush under which I have been 
resting. I have only seen two specimens of Z'urnix jouderu ; 
one I shot last year in a low scrub jungle and one my 
brother obtained last month on a low hill covered with thorny 
bushes. We have had several specimens of Turnix taigoor, 
and in July, 1886, I found a nest of taigoor, a mere depression 
under a small bush, containing five eggs. I know the Quail 
was taigoor, for I waited for the mother and shot her. 
The Rain Quail I have not been able to get a specimen of, 
but my father has shot it here. 
Snipe are not very abundant in Khorda except in certain 
very favorable localities on the Chilka shore and round a few 
favorite jhils. The Common Snipe and the Pintail seem equally 
distributed; some days we will get more of the former and 
on another the latter will be the more abundant. 
The little Jack is not common and the Painted rather 
rare. I have only seenthree specimens within these two last 
seasons. 
In Khorda apparently we do not get the Painted Partridge, 
Francolinus pictus. This is strange, as it should occur, but 
we have neither seen it or heard of it in Khorda, neither do 
we get its northern ally Francolinus vulgaris which stops 
at the left bank of the Mahanadi except near the coast at 
Jaldanda, where my father has shot several on the right bank 
of a nala leading from the right bank of the Mahanadi. The 
Grey Partridge is not very common, still it is not rare in a 
few isolated places on the estate; its distribution seems very 
irregular. 
JAMES H. TAYLOR. 
P.S—It will be interesting for you to hear that in March, 
1885, my father found in the jungles near Banpur quite 
fresh eggs (of which he barbarously made an omelette) of the 
Red Jungle Fowl and the Red Spur Fowl in the same nest in 
the centre of a clump of bamboos. There were four or five 
eggs of each bird. The Pavo cristatws down here get their 
full tails sometimes by the end of March, 
J. Fie ie 
