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The nest contained four eggs, three were of the usual colour, pale yellow with 

 reddish brown spots, the fourth was however totally different, being deep 

 olive brown without any spots. Owing to this peculiarity I took the eggs, 

 intending to send them to the British Musuem (N. H.) on my return to England. 

 The war commenced, and I had to leave India in a hurry, the result being that 

 when I unpacked my collection recently, this one particular egg was broken. 

 I have patched it up to a certain degree, but it is not worth sending to the 

 National Collection. 



I also remember, when I was at school at Westward Ho in Devon, finding 

 a thrush's nest, one egg in which was without spots ; this caused so much ad- 

 miration amongst my school fellows, that it soon went the way of most (school 

 boy) eggs, and was broken. 



J. E. M. BOYD, Major, r.a.m.c. 

 BiKCHiNTON -on-Sea, 

 i4:th February 1921. 



No. XX— EGGS OF THE PHEASANT-TAILED JACANA 

 {H. CHIRURGUS). 



A letter from Mr. Inglis in your issue of December 1920 called attention to 

 an abnormally light coloured egg of the Pheasant-tailed Jacana. 



It may interest him to know that I found a similar ' pale sea green egg, of 

 this species last June in Kashmir. I would not look upon such a variety — 

 showing as it does most probably an absence or poverty of pigment — as rare 

 ■ — I would be inclined to look upon it as the most usual form of variation. 



I found several dwarf eggs last year in Kashmir. Such eggs are of interest 

 to Oologists and are often curious in colour and marking. I found one dwarf 

 egg of each of the following species : — ^Rufous-backed Shrike, Little Bittern, 

 House Crow, Pheasant-tailed Jacana, and Snipe, the latter a very handsome 

 egg clouded and marked at the pointed end. 



I also found a Waterhen's egg and a Little Bittern's egg in the same nest. 



KOTAH, RA.JPUTANA, T. R. LIVESEY. 



Fehruari/ 1921. 



No. XXL— WHITE-HEADED DUCK SHOT NEAR QUETTA. 



As the White-headed Duck {Oxyura leucocephala) is a rare visitor to India, 

 the following notes, kindly furnished by Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel M. Henderson, 

 D.S.O., Royal Scots, seem worth recording. On December 14th, 1919, he shot 

 an immature male of this species at Khushdil Khan, about 40 miles North- West 

 of Quetta. Another bird (also a drake) but in adult plumage, was also killed 

 by another gun on the same day. Lieut-Col. M. Henderson also informs me that 

 he saw a small party of duck with conspicuous white heads on the same day, but 

 they were poor risers and he was unable to get a shot at them. There can be 

 little doubt that these also belonged to the same species. 



Appleton Rectory, Abingdon, Berks, F. C. R. JOURDAIN. 



December 27 th, 1920. 



