MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 321 



No. X — THE FLAMINGO BREEDING IN INDIA. 



In the last number of our Journal ( page 4, vol, xi) Mr, E, C. Stuart 

 Baker, in his series on the " Indian Ducks and their Allies " says that it is un- 

 likely that it, the Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus), breeds anywhere within 

 our limits, or anywhere nearer than the northern shores of the Persian Gulf. 

 He appears, however, to have overlooked the Miscellaneous Note on page 

 553, vol. viii, of this Journal, in which the Eao of Cutch recorded that about 

 twenty eggs and two recently hatched flamingoes had been obtained from one 

 of his officials at Khadir, and that the men who picked up the eggs found 

 numerous nests in one place on the Run. 



C. D. LESTER, Lieutenant, 

 Bhuj, Cutch, Qth July, 1897. 17fch Bombay Infantry. 



No. XI.— LATE STAY OF WATER FOWL, 



It will be of interest to ornithologists to know that there are still three 

 Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa cegocephala) on the Hamir-Sar Tank, just outside 

 Bhuj City. I saw these birds to-day at a distance of some 30:feet from the 

 raised road which passes one side of the tank, and they are in their winter 

 plumage. Surely, there is something wrong with the season this year. 



C. D. LESTER, Lieutenant, 

 Bhuj, Cutch, lih July, 1897. 17th Bombay Infantry. 



No. XII— THE OCCURRENCE OF THE WATER-COCK 

 ( GALLICREX CRIST ATUS) IN CUTCH. 



His Highness the Rao of Cutch recently sent me a couple of birds which 

 he had shot for identification. They turn out to be the Water-Cock {Gallicrex 

 cristaius), male and female, hitherto unrecorded in Cutch. In my small 

 collection, obtained almost entirely in Cutch, I have some eggs which 

 answer the description of those of the above-mentioned bird, and now that 

 the bird has been found to occur here I feel inclined to put them down as 

 Gallicrex cristatus. They were taken by my shikari, but he did not see the 

 bird. The measurement and colouring coincide with those mentioned by the 

 late Lieut. Barnes on page 138 of vol. VI of this Journal, but they are not 

 a bit like what is depicted in the plate opposite page 129 of the same volume 

 the colouring of the blotches and markings of which are altogether far too 

 red in colour when compared with the description as written by him. 



C. D. LESTER, Lieutenant, 

 Bhuj, Cutch, 1th July, 1897. 17th Bombay Infantry. 



