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brownish-black ; wings both above and beneath brownish-black ; 
some of the secondaries slightly fringed with silvery-grey ; bill and 
feet black. 
Total length, 5} inches; bill, £; wing, 3}; tail, 25; tarsi, 2. 
Hab. Erzeroum. 
Remark.—Nearly allied to, and about the size of, R. Tithys ; but 
differing from that species in the under surface of the shoulder being 
darker, and the lower part of the abdomen being red instead of 
greyish-white. 
In my own collection. 
2. Norrs oN THE Birps or WeEsTERN INnpIA. 
By Litrvut. BurGess. 
Family Raviipz. 
Genus Funica, L. 
Fuuica AtRA. Baup Coot. 
I found some of these birds breeding on the Singwa tauk, situ- 
ated about eighteen miles north of the station of Ahmednuggur, on 
21st August, 1849. I obtained three eggs and three nestlings, which 
were marked as follows: head, neck, breast and back covered with 
bright orange-red, hair-like feathers ; beak crimson, tip white ; lower 
part of the back dark lead-colour, nearly black; near the beak the 
face was covered with bright scarlet pustules ; irides brown; legs 
and feet dark lead-colour. The young birds swam with surprising 
rapidity. I was attracted at first by the unusual movements of the 
old birds, who swam backwards and forwards with great swiftness at 
some distance from the nest, showing great uneasiness, and when I 
was handling their young appeared quite distracted. 
The egg is rather more than 2, in. in length, by nearly 1,3, in. 
in width, of a stone-colour, spotted with numberless small specks of 
brown, and some larger spots of dark brown and grey. 
Family ScoLopacip&. 
Genus Scotorax. 
Subgenus Ruyncu a (Cuv.). 
Ruyncua picta (Gray). ParnTep SNIPE. 
I quite think that the Painted Snipe breeds in the Deccan, or at 
least some few of them, as I have had both male and female birds 
sent to me in the middle of July, which were shot near Ahmednug- 
gur. The female was in remarkably rich and beautiful plumage. 
It is very probable that some breed annually in the rushy grounds 
bordering the large tank at Singwa. 
