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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
No, L—QUAILS BREEDING IN CAPTIVITY. 
In June or July, 1891, I bought a large cage with 20 or 30 birds in it; 
among them 3 bush-quail cocks: one died soon after. In August or Septem- 
ber, 1891, I rescued a hen bush-quail from the hands of my cook, who was 
about to slay her, and I put her into the cage. Soon afterwards she began to 
lay, and up to this (January, 1894,) she cannot have laid less than 60 eggs, One 
of the cocks died last November. At the beginning of December I puta “sod” 
of grass into the cage; the hen almost immediately made a nest,—that is, she 
pressed down a small circular portion of the grass,—and laid five eggs, I let 
her sit. Three weeks afterwards I broke one of the eggs; there was a partly 
developed chick in it, alive. A few days afterwards I broke another egg: con- 
tents bad. Then, as I thought it best to make the bird cease from sitting, I 
broke the other three eggs ; one was bad, but in the other two were fully- 
formed chicks, dead. I believe that if the other (many) birds in the cage had 
not disturbed the sitting quail, she would have hatched her egos. 
R, P. BRUNTON, 
15th January, 1894. 
No. I11—SAUROMATUM GUTTATUM, SCHOTT. 
In the “ Flora of British India,” Vol. IV, page 509, it is stated S. guttatum 
is confined to N.-W. India, except Schott’s specimens should prove to be from 
the Concan, of which there is no evidence. 
A root collected at Tulsi near Bombay has flowered in the Botanical Garden 
of this College during the last few days and proves to be this species, The 
description in ‘‘ Flora of British India” is good, and the figure in Wight’s Icones 
Plant., n. 800, is unmistakable. 
G. MARSHALL WOODROW. 
COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, 
Poona, 28th January, 1894. 
No. IJI.—NOTES ON CALLEREBIA NIRMALA, MOORE, A 
SATYRID BUTTERFLY. 
On the 5th of July, 1893, I caught at Mussoorie, a hill-station in the Western 
Himalayas, a female example of Callerebia nirmala, Moore, which the same 
day laid eight eggs on grass. 
The eggs are pearly-white, irregularly globular, slightly flattened at the top 
and bottom like an orange, and resemble seed-pearls both in colour and shape. 
They are about the size of very fine grains of sago. They were laid on the 
blades of grass, but fell off at once when the grass was touched. On the 16th 
the eggs turned yellow and remained go till the 20th, when a slight dark mark 
