1 1 8 Indinn Museum Notes. [ Yolt II« 



})h6asants brought down to Calcutta are shot, I believe, in Bhutan and 

 Nepal, and I have been offered as many as a thousand skins at once; the 

 other pheasants occurring- in any quantity likely to be exported are the 

 two species of Ceriornis {C. satyra and C. melanocephala) known as tlie 

 Sikkim and Simla Argus Pheasants respectively, though, of course, they 

 are neither of them the true Argus, which is a bird found in the Malay 

 Peninsula only. 



The only other birds which to my knowledge are exported in any 

 quantity are the common species of the genus Palaeor?iis to which all 

 the Indian Parrots belong, the Blue Jay or Roller (Coracias), the King- 

 fishers {Ceryle and Halct/on). and the jungle fowls {Gallus). The heckles 

 of the Southern Jungle Fowl [G son?ieraiii) are used for making fishing- 

 flies among other things. 



For the following list of the birds commonly eaten in India, I am 



greatly indebted to- Mr. Hume's Gleanings from the Calcutta Market 



{Sl.ray Veathers,N oV.NW,^. 479), which not only gives the birds brought 



to the market in Lower Bengal, but which is also more or less applicable 



to the whole of India : — 



Charadrius fulvus := Golden Plover. • 



Gallinago steuura ^ The Piu-tailed Snipe. 



Gallinago gallinaria = The Common Snipe. 



Totanus glareola = The Spotted Sandpiper ov Snippet. 



Totanus calidris = The Red Slianks or Snippet. 



Hydrophasianus chirurgus ^ The Pheasant-Tailed Jacana. 



Nettapus covomandelianus = The Cotton Teah 



ChaulelasiHUs streperus = The Gadwall. 



Dafila acnta = The Pintail. 



Fuligula rufina = The Redcresfed Pochard. 



Fulignla nyvoca = The White Eye. 



Qiierquedula circia = Tiie Blue-Winged or Garganey Ten]. 



The following are birds commonly eaten when shot by European 

 S})ortsmen throughout India, but are not found anyhow commonly in 

 the Calcutta bazaar : — 



Crocopus phcenicopterus := Hurrial or Green Pigeon. 



Columba intermedia ■=■ Kabutar or Blue Rock I'igeon. 



Eupodotis edwardsii = Tohdar iSohan or Bustard. 



Sypheatides bengalensis = Charras or Florikin. 



Grus antigone = Sams or Sarus Crane. 



Ciconia leucocephala = Manikjor or Beefsteak Bird. 



Calandrella hrachydactyla = Baghaira or Ortolan. 



Pterocles exustus ^^ Kuliar or Sandgrouse. 



Pavo cristatus, = Mor or Peacock. 



Gallus ferrugineus = JungU Murgi or Jungle-fowl. 



Gallus sonuerati = Gray-fowl. 



