256 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1392. 



Of the above No. 2 stood 45 inches at the shoulder, the height of the others 

 I was unable to ascertain, but there seems little doubt that the Thumin stands 

 from 11 hands to 11 '2 in height. 



The following notes have been kindly supplied by a gentleman of the 

 A. V. D., who is also a good sportsman and has shot many. 



"The Panolia eldi, Thamin Burmese, Sungrcd Munipur. Brow antlered deer. 

 Colour. — Full-grown stag is a very dark brown about back and neck, underparts 

 light. The old bucks in the distance look almost black. The females are 

 much lighter in colour. Horns. — In the second year the males begiu to get 

 their horns ; after two years they get two tines, and at seven are said to be in 

 their prime, when they run to 1 2 or more tines, including the brow antler. The 

 horns are perfect in March, and are shed in September." 



" Theruttiug season is April and May ; the female goes with young about 6 J 

 months, and brings forth about October and November, usually one at a birth. 

 The young are often spotted, but this soon disappears." 



" They are very fond of the open and will not go into heavy bush jungle ; 

 they are difficult to approach, and a long swinging trot their pace ; they can be 

 seen grazing in numbers in the open quins, where the kine grass has been 

 burnt." 



The above writer also says he considers the weight of a good stag about 200 

 lbs. I should say it was considerably nearer 320 lbs., but I have never 

 weighed one. 



W. St. JOHN EICHAEDSON, Capt. 



Rangoon, 10th May, 1892. 



v.— GEOGEAPHICAL DISTEIBUTION OF THE PIN-TAILED SNIPE. 



I notice in the last journal (No. 4, Vol. VI.) a query by Captain Eichardson 

 as to the distribution of this snipe. The question is dealt with in Hume and 

 MarsJiaU's Game-hirds, and the inference therein arrived at seems to be that 

 the further south you go the more plentiful are the pia-tailed snipe, and certainly 

 as between Guzerat and the Konkan, that is my experience. Seebhom, in his 

 treatise on the Charadnida, does not go into this point, but he designates India 

 as the locality wherein S. stenusa was evolved from the original snipe type, 

 whereas he lays down Europe as the home of S. galUnago. He alludes of 

 course to the period of dispersion following the last but one glacial epoch. 

 Anyhow it would be natural if we accept his views to imagine that S. stenusa 

 would go further south into India . 



I see Hume seems to be ignorant of the breeding place of S. stenusa. 



Seebhom of course has cleared all this up in his researches in the Arctic Circle,, 

 where he found them breeding above 70° latitude. 



H. D. OLIVIER, Major. 



Ahmedab.\d District, 30th April, 1892. 



