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move northwards and westwards, extending over the western parts 

 of the Central Provinces, the Central India Agency, the southern 

 .and central portions of Rajputana, Khandesh, Guzerat, Cutch, 

 Kathiawar and Southern Sind." 



• " The migration is, however, irregular, as in some years it 

 extends much further than in others. The birds a^^e plentiful in 

 •one year where in the next none or few are to be met with.*' 

 " In years when the rainfall is plentiful, thej'' are pretty common 

 during the monsoon a little south of Delhi, in Rohtak and Gurgaon. 

 Generally, there are a good many about Jhansi and so on, but 

 ■except as stragglers, they are not found in those parts of the 

 •country that I know further north than a line joining Sersa and 

 Delhi, nor do they .cross the Jumna in any numbers." 



" Although I have known single specimens killed near Lucknow, 

 Sultanpur, and other places in Oudh ; though I have myself shot 

 single birds occasionally in the Meerut and Etawah districts ; 

 though Ball got a specimen in Serguja, Hodgson others in the 

 valley of Nepal ; though Jerdon says he has known of their 

 •occurrence in Purneah, and Parker tells me they have occurred in 

 Nuddea ,; though one specimen has been killed on the Mekran 

 Coast near Gwader and another at Sandoway in Arakan, I do not, 

 -as at present informed, consider that either Beluchistan, the 

 Punjab, the North- Western Provinces, north and east of the 

 Jumna, Oudh, Chota Nagpore or any part of Bengal or the coun- 

 tries eastwards, can be properly included within its normal range. 

 It occurs nowhere out of India." 



It will be seen that Hume refers to a bird shot at Sandoway on 

 the Arrakan Coast. This record is from the Bengal 8'porting 

 Magazine for 1835, where a writer, on page 151, records the 

 shooting of a Lesser Florican, and this record is quoted by Blyth 

 in his "'Birds of Burmah," p. 152. It is, however, extremely 

 doubtful if this record is a really correct One and Sypheotis aurita 

 ■should not be accepted as a Burmese Bird on the strength of it. 

 The next point furthest east from which it has been recorded is 

 Dinajpore, from which place there is a specimen in the British 

 ^luseum, and further south of this again from Purulia, Purnea 

 and Nadia, from each of which district stragglers are occasionally 



