MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 667 



In Peshawar, where they are rare, I shot a male inSeptember 1910, and 

 in January 1910 one of the Majors in my Regiment shot a male when out 

 after Snipe on a big Jheel ; both old ones. 



0. R. S. PITMAN, 2nd Lieut., 

 Alipore, August 1911. 27th Punjabis. 



No. XXI.— PAINTED SNIPE (R08TRATULA CAPENSISJ IN 

 ' LARGE NUMBERS. 



In connection with the article on the Painted Snipe in Vol. XX, No. 4, of 

 the Society's Journal, it may interest you to know that while shooting over 

 rice-fields near Thana on Sunday last I put up fifteen Painters in a single 

 field, and in the course of the morning saw between fifteen and twenty 

 couple of these birds. When shooting in the same locality I have often 

 found Painters in greater numbers than pucca snipe, and this was the case 

 again on Sunday when my bag included 11|^ couple of Painters, 7 couple of 

 Snipe and two couple of Jack. 



These experiences hardly agree with the statement in the Journal that 

 " nowhere is the Painted Snipe ever found in such vast numbers as is 

 the Common Snipe, " and it may be that other local shikarees have found 

 the same to be the case. 



On page 905 of the same Volume it is stated that " the Jack Snipe 

 is not nearly so common as either the Pintail or Fantail," whereas when 

 shooting at various places on this side of the Ghats, I have always 

 found the Jack to be more common than the Pintail. 



Bags made in the locality of Bombay are rarely enough to justify their 

 inclusion in sporting records, but they are not without interest, as the 

 comparative numbers and distribution of the different varieties of Snipe 

 do not agree, in my small experience, with those given in the Journal. 



A. H, KINGSTON. 

 Bombay, 31s^ October 1911. 



No. XXII.— RECORD OF SNIPE SHOT AT HMINELONGYEE, IN 



THE CHIENGMAI DISTRICT OF SIAM, 1816 NORTH 



LAT., 98° EAST LONG., FROM 1905 TO 1910. 



I enclose a record of snipe shot in Hminelongyee, a district in Siam, and 

 about 25 miles across the border from Burmah, 18" 15 North Lat., 98° Long., 

 for a period of six years, which may be of interest. 



The months of May, June and July did not produce much. October, 

 November and December show small bags; this was not due to the scarcity 

 of snipe, but rather to the want of time to shoot them. 



