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tee-tor. The nest is very difficult to find, and I never succeeded in discovering it myself ; but 

 some of our Arabs once brought in a sitting of eggs, all of which they succeeded in smashing as 

 they carried them in their cloaks." Eastward the JFrancolin is found in Armenia and Persia. 

 Mr. Blanford informs me that he only met with the Francolin in the better-wooded parts of 

 Baluchistan, up to an elevation of about 2000 feet, and on the banks of the Shat-el-Arab, near 

 Bussorah ; but he believes that it occurs in places all along the coast of Southern Persia. To 

 this Major St. John adds that "it is found in the warm plains of Southern Persia, and the damp 

 forest regions of the Caspian, but not very abundantly in the latter. The northern limit is about 

 Lenkoran. West of our region it is found in great numbers in the tamarisk-jungles and reed- 

 beds of Mesopotamia." Mr. A. O. Hume states (Stray Feathers, i. p. 226) that " in suitable 

 localities throughout Sindh, wherever there is water and long grass, the present species abounds. 

 About Kusmore, on the bank of the Indus, they swarm, and on the road between Shikarpore 

 and Sukkur they run backwards and forwards across the road in front of you as our Pheasants 

 do in Norfolk." According to Dr. Jerdon it is found throughout the whole of Northern India, 

 from the Himalayas to the valley of the Ganges, but does not, that I am aware of, extend to 

 any distance beyond the valley of the Ganges, until above Allahabad, beyond which it passes 

 to the Punjab, and southwards through Rajpootana to Sindh and perhaps to Goozrat. East- 

 ward it extends through Dacca to Assam, Sylhet, and Tipperah ; but I have seen no record of its 

 occurrence further south in this direction, and it is replaced in Burmah by an allied species. It 

 occurs south of the Ganges, between that river and the Hooghly ; and I have seen notices of the 

 Black Partridge having been shot in Midnapore and Cuttack ; but it is certainly rare south of the 

 Ganges." Mr. Blyth states, on the authority of Captain Beavan, that it is tolerably common in 

 Maunbhoom, where Francolinus pictus is not met with ; and Dr. Leith Adams says that it is 

 common in cultivated localities in the lesser ranges, but is never found in the valley of Cashmere 

 or Ladak. 



There appears no doubt that the present species formerly existed in Spain, Sardinia, Sicily, 

 and the Greek archipelago ; but it is now quite extinct in those localities, and, as above stated, 

 the only portions of the "Western Palsearctic Region where it occurs are the islands of Cyprus, 

 Asia Minor, and Palestine. Lord Lilford, in an exhaustive article on the present species (Ibis, 

 1862, pp. 352-356), clearly shows that it was then undoubtedly extinct in every portion of 

 Europe proper, except in Cyprus, and that Dr. Bree had no ground for his statement that when 

 he wrote his first edition it still inhabited various portions of Southern Europe. Messrs. 

 Salvadori and Doderlein have sought to prove that the extinction of the present species in Sicily 

 is of very late date ; and the latter refers to one having been eaten at a dinner at Terranova in 

 1869 ; but no recently killed example, or even feathers of one, sufficient for identification, have 

 been forthcoming, in spite of a heavy reward offered for a specimen ; and it may therefore be 

 reasonably doubted whether the occurrences recorded really referred to the present species. I 

 need not, however, reproduce the mass of information collected by his Lordship in confirmation 

 of his statement, but may remark that he appears to disbelieve that it ever occurred in Malta, 

 though this island is named by Temminck and Schlegel as one . of the localities where it used 

 formerly to be met with. He adds, however, one locality which appears to have been previously 

 omitted, viz. Spain, and writes (torn. cit. p. 354) as follows : — " It is remarkable that neither 



