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The other recorded Indian specimens are : two shot and one other seen 

 by Captain Irbyin Oudh ; others seen, Hume does not say how many were 

 obtained by Mr. A. Anderson near Hurdni in Oudh, and at Futtepur in 

 the N.W. Provinces. One procured by Dr. Bonavia near Lucknow ; and 

 finally three shot by Mr. Chill some 30 miles south o£ Delhi. Three 

 obtained by Mr. Frank Finn (a male and two females) from a bird-dealer 

 in the provision bazaar in Calcutta, and said to have come from somewhere 

 near Rawal-Pindi. Finally, one shot by Mr. R. Johnston, at Sookerating, 

 Lakhimpur, Assam, in October 1903. 



It breeds in Lapland, and (vide Alpheraky) " it breeds in the Kaninsk 

 Peninsula, and probably throughout the whole tundra of the northern 

 coast line of Siberia.''' Its breeding-grounds in Lapland are close to the 

 perpetual ice, yet, in spite of this, it is a comparatively early breeder, as 

 Middendorff took the young in down as early as the 23rd June, and on the 

 29th July a young bird in which the quill-feathers had started growing. 



It lays 5 to 8 eggs, in the usual form of nest, which are said to be a 

 dull creamy-white in colour^ of a broad regular oval shape, glossless 

 texture, and to measure about 2'9 by 2 inches. Eggs in my own possession 

 are dull grey, one with the creamy tint very slightly developed. They are 

 very long ovals, measuring 2*85 by 1*84 inches, and are perhaps rather 

 abnormal in shape. 



The eggs in the British Museum vary between 3*27 and 2'70 inches in 

 lenoth and between 1*93 and 1*80 in breadth. 



