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Hume laid so much stress, for according specific rank to the 

 Himalayan birds, is merely a sign of age ; and 

 {b) that the Himalayan birds cannot, therefore, be separated on this 

 account from the birds found in other parts of India : in other 

 words, the Falco atriceps of Hume is identical with the Falco pere- 

 grinator of Sundevall. 



P. T. L. DODSWORTH, F.Z.S., M.B.o.ir. 

 Simla, Ath June 1913. 



No. XIX.— THE LIMITS OF EANGE OP THE BUONZE- 

 WINGED DOVE (CHALCOPHAPS INDICA). 



I saw one of these beautiful little doves drinking at a village tank at about 

 8-0 a.m. on 14th Aprilil913 ; this place was about 8 miles west of latitude 

 80° E. and 70 miles north of the River Godavari. The jungle was fairly 

 open scrub, trees and grass jungle. On 13th May I saw one drinking at a 

 pool in a nallah about 6-30 a.m. in latitude 80° 14' E. longitude 19° 50' 

 N., and about 65 miles north of the River Godavari. Hills of granitoid 

 gneiss, thick forest, grassy plains and valleys between the hills : a great 

 deal of Bamboo jungle. 



C. E. PITMAN. 



Deka Ismail Khan, 7th August 1913. 



No. XX.— GREY QUAIL (COTURNIX COMMUNIS) IN 

 CUTCH AND KATHIAWAR. 



Grey quail have been seen — although only a few — in Cutch, as early as the 

 middle of August, but one never comes across them in May or June. By 

 the beginning of April every bird disappears from this Province, at least 

 I have never seen or heard of any after the first week of April until about 

 the middle of August. 



I, therefore, was rather surprised to see last month (May), when I was 

 on the north-west side of the Gir Forest in Kathiawar, no less than seven 

 couple of Grey Quail. 



While out riding on the evening on the 27th May, I put up a couple and 

 to make quite sure about them I put them up again. Next morning I was 

 out after black buck and put up about six couple more. The birds were 

 all in a patch of rather long dry grass and got up very close to me, so I 

 have no doubt as to their identity. I saw these quail near a spot called 

 Deval-Bag about a mile and a half from Mendarada, a village which lies 

 in a Kathi State of that name. 



M. K. S. VIJAYARAJJI OF CUTCH. 

 Bhuj, 9iA June 1913. 



No. XXI.— FLORICAN {SYPHOETIS AURITA) IN THE KONKAN. 



In No. I, Vol. XXII. I read an article about the occurrence of the Lesser 

 Florican or Likh below the Ghauts. It might interest you to know that in 

 November 1908, I shot a female of this species at Chinchavli, near Neral, 

 while shooting quail in fairly high grass. 



