THE GAME BIRDS OF INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 657 



2,000 ft. above the sea, scarcely any come to drink in the evening 

 and at higher elevation not any were met with." 



Occasionallj', at all events the Close-barred Sand-Grouse collects 

 in flocks of some size for Yerbury (ibis, 1886) speaks of finding a 

 flock of eighty to a hundred individuals " at Shulaif near Lakey. 



There is hardly anything on record about the breeding of this 

 Sand-Grouse, although it must breed practically throughout its 

 range. Ogilvie Grant, in his Game-Birds, quotes Heuglin to the 

 effect that he found nests of this species containing " two cylindri- 

 cal eggs, much the colour of dirty and faded Pewits eggs." 



There is one egg of this species in the British Museum collection 

 taken at Moraul, by Malan, in 1851. In ground colour this is a 

 dirty yellowish stone colour, or earth colour, and it is rather 

 profusely covered all over its surface with largish blotches of dirty 

 Vandyke brown and with others again underlying these of dull 

 lavender grey. It is of a dull, giossless surface with a texture 

 comparatively rough to both touch and sight. In general appear- 

 ance it is like a small, pale and very dull coloured egg of Pterodurus 

 alchata, but it can be matched by no egg I have seen in very large 

 series of the latter and its texture is totally different. 



It measures 1. 70" x 1. 20" (=41 x 27-3 mm.). There is no 

 date given to shew in what month it was taken. It came to the 

 Museum with the rest of the Crowley Bequest and in the Crowley 

 Catalogue there is the following remark : " One egg from Minereh. 

 Revd. S. C. Malan, ex Tristram 'Tristram says the species is not 

 quite certain'." 



(To be co7iti7iued') . 



