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bag on record for India is that recorded by A. Graham Young in Hume and 

 M.&rsh.?i\V 8 Game Birds of India, 2Q yesirs 2igo. This bag Avas made in Tos 

 Forests in Ktilhi." Now Mr. Graham Young never said that the bag of 33 

 cock was shot in the Tos Forests ; all he said was that they bred in the Tos 

 Forests and descended lower down in the autumn. Tos is the silver tir 

 which grows at an elevation of 8-10,000 feet. 



In the winter cock come down to the alder, Koish (or Kosh) groves in the 

 valley, and there they are shot easily. It is rare for one gun to bag 8 cock 

 in a day in Kulu now. 



J. COLDSTREAM, i.c.s. 

 Kulu, IQth Februanj 1911. 



No. XXXII.— OCCUEEENCE OF SWINHOE'S SNIPE (GALLINAGO 

 MEG ALA) AT MYITKYINA, UPPER BURMA. 



The following note may be of interest as a record of G. merjala within 

 the area dealt with in the Fauna of [British India. The specimen was one 

 of three snipes shot here by a friend on oth January 1911 and sent to the 

 writer, who in examining them recognized this one as Swinhoe's Snipe. 



The following notes were made at the time : — Length 11'75 inches ; wing 

 5-6 ; tail 2-27 ; bill 2-78 ; tarsus 1-35. Tail feathers 20, the eight median 

 ones broad, six lateral ones on either side, much narrower but not nearly so 

 narrow as the Pintail's. Iris chestnut. Legs and feet bluish jjlumbeous. 

 Centre of abdomen white. Narrow white tips to primaries and secondaries. 

 Distance between tip of shortest secondary and that of longest primary 'I-'o 

 inches. 



F. E. W. VENNING, Capt. 

 Pyawbe, Burma, 

 Auf/ust 1911. 



No. XXXIII.— OCCURRENCE OF THE FANTAIL SNIPE 

 {GALLINAGO COELESTIS) IN SIAM. 



In the last number of the Journal, in the interesting account of the 

 Common or Fantail Snipe, forming part of the series of '•' the Game Birds of 

 India, Burma, and Ceylon," by Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker, I notice on p. 5-")2 

 of the Journal, the following statement — '• I have lately received a speci- 

 men from Siam whence it had not previously been recorded." 



This statement shows how local knowledge may be left unrecorded for 

 years, in this case probably, on account of its being such common knowledge. 

 ■J^he fact is the occurrence of the Fantail Snipe in Siam must be known to 

 practically every sportsman who shoots there and there are a good number 

 especially in Bangkok. 



