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coast. In these latter localities I fully expected to meet with the nearly allied Ammoperdix 

 hep, Temm. ; but though we shot several birds, they proved to be all bonhami." And this 

 gentleman further writes (Nests and Eggs of Ind. B. p. 541) : — " This Partridge is very common 

 and tame in the Salt range : a couple of dozen may be seen in a morning's walk ; and if people 

 are set to collect them large numbers are brought in. They are most generally seen running on 

 the bare rocks, or perching about the droppings of cattle on the mountain-paths ; but at Tobur, 

 some 2000 feet high, the rainy-season residence of the miners, who during the rest of the year 

 reside in the Khewra Gorge (some 700 feet above the sea), and work the neighbouring Mayo 

 salt-mines, I saw several pairs running about on the flat roofs of the empty houses. The males 

 may often be seen perched on some rocky point ; and the female in the spring, though less 

 commonly seen in exposed positions, will always be found close to her mate. They run very 

 rapidly and glidingly over the rockiest ground, rise pretty readily, and fly smartly, always, if 

 possible, down hill. Both iii gait and flight they remind one much of the Chukar." 



Dr. Jerdon states (B. of India, ii. p. 568), this " bird is only found in the Punjab, in the 

 Salt range of hills, more abundant across the Indus, on the Suleiman range, near Attock, and in 

 the Khyber and Bolan passes ; and it is still more common in Afghanistan and Persia, whence 

 the original specimens were sent. It is there called 'Tee-hoo.' Gould states that it was also 

 brought from Thibet by Lord Gifford. Adams says that it is not found further south than the 

 Salt range ; but a writer in the ' Bengal Sporting Review,' on the game of Sindh, distinctly 

 indicates it under the name of the Bock or Barbary Partridge as found across the Indus. It 

 frequents rocky ground with brushwood here and there, and is often seen in company with the 

 Chukar, which it much resembles in habits ; is found in coveys, which, when sprung, rise with 

 a startling noise, and feeds much on a kind of wild thyme. The flesh is said to be delicious. 

 The name ' Seesee' is given from its call. Theobald found the eggs, twelve in number, of a clear 

 cream-colour, laid in a slight hollow among stones in the hills." 



Beyond the notes above given, I find but little on record respecting the habits of Ammoperdix 

 bonhami. It breeds in most of the localities where it is found ; and its eggs are said to resemble 

 those of its ally, Ammoperdix heyi. Captain Cock, who found it nesting in the Salt range, 

 informed Mr. Hume (I. c.) that the nest is placed under a ledge of rock of between some stones. 

 He once found one under a cairn of stones that had been erected by the herdboys. " They lay," 

 he says, "from eight to twelve eggs, stone cream-colour, pointed at both ends, in shape and size 

 resembling the eggs of Podiceps philippensis. The nest scarcely deserves the name ; a few dry 

 bents, one or two feathers, and a hole in the ground is all the nest they prepare for the reception 

 of their eggs." 



Mr. Hume gives the size of the eggs of this bird as follows — length from 1*3 to T5, breadth 

 1*0 to IT, the average of twenty being T4 by 1*03. 



The specimens figured are an adult male and female from the Euphrates valley, both of 

 which are in my own collection. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



