202 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXII. 



The Hasimara Tea Estate is situated "on the east bank of the Toorsa 

 river, some 50 miles east of the Teesta. I have in the course of the last 

 three years seen this bird on several occasions near the garden. The only 

 specimen I secured — a young male — was obtained in June 1911 when out 

 shooting with a friend who knocked it over as it rose out of some grass. I 

 unfortunately did not preserve the skin, as I was then under the impres- 

 sion that the bird had already been recorded from these parts. 



The only months I have seen them in are April, May and June. They 

 are decidedly uncommon and appear to be somewhat irregular in their 

 visits to these parts. 



Hasimaka, T. E. Bhutan Duaks, H. V. O'DONEL. 



10^ December 1912. 



No. XXV.— LESSER FLORICAN (SYPMEOTIS AURITA) 

 IN THE KONKAN. 



Through the kindness of Mr. C. D. Baker, the Society has received a- 

 Lesser Florican shot on 16th December 1912 between Mandwa and Alibag. 

 The bird was a female. 



The Lesser Florican is an uncommon cold weather visitor below ghats^ 

 and there are only some three or four records of its occurrence. Mr. Stuart 

 Baker in his account of this species in the Journal, Vol. XXI, p. 728, men- 

 tions that "Mr. N. S. Symons reports two birds shot near Panwell in the' 

 S. Bombay Presidency. " As will be seen from the original note in the 

 Journal, Vol. XIX, p. 261, this is not quite correct as only one bird was- 

 shot at Panwell in January 1909, the other mentioned being obtained some 

 twenty years earlier at Mahalaxmi. It might also be as well to point out 

 that the gentleman who shot and recorded the birds was Mr. H. S. Symons 

 and not his brother Mr. N. S. Symons. 



Since writing the above I have heard from Mr. G. S. Hardy, I.O.S., that 

 he put up a Florican on the 7th February, near Chiplun in the Ratnagiri 

 district. Mr. J. W. Vidal during seven seasons in that district only saw 

 and heard of three Florican. 



Bombay, 10th February 1913. N. B. KINNEAR. 



No. XXVI.— OCCURRENCE OF THE BRONZE CAPPED TEAL 

 (EUNETTA FALCATA) IN OUDH. 



Records of the occurrence of the Bronze Capped Teal in Peninsular India, 

 are sufficiently uncommon to justify reporting further instances. Among 

 the bag shot at Darziakna in the Gonda District on the 13th January I 

 identified a fine male specimen, the first I have ever seen in India. 



F. WALL, Major, i.m.s., c.m.z.s. 

 Camp Bareilly, \7tJi January 1913. 



[We have received a specimen of this duck from Mr. H. W. Waite, who shot a 

 young male on the Najatgarh jhil near Delhi on 26th January and another from 

 Captain. G. W. Burton, who obtained it and saw two others on Jogiwala jhil near 

 Llaksar U. P., quite recently. — Eds.] 



No. XXVII.— VORACITY OF A PYTHON (PYTHON MOLURUS). 



On the 10th November 1912, during the Dewali holidays, while shooting 

 at Popatpura near Bavla, in the Ahmedabad District, I was walking after 

 snipe, in company with Mr. J. H. E. Tupper, I.C.S., when one of the beaters- 

 called out that there was a big snake. We found that it was a large python^, 



