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barica, a restricted Alauda with a long hind claw. Of course the 

 bird recorded by him as Spizalauda JDeva is the Spizalauda simil- 

 lima, nobis. 



716. Emberi%a Huttoni. — This bird is common almost through- 

 out Northern, "Western and Central India, wherever there are rocky 

 hills. It abounds in the Salt Range, in the Panjab, and throughout 

 the Aravalli range ; Taragurh at Ajmere and Mt. Abu, being 

 amongst its most favourite resorts. I have it from near Mirzapur, 

 from the Siwaliks and from the Saugor Division and Mr. 

 Brookes has shot it in Etawah. Probably like Emberiza strio- 

 lata, which I this year found breeding at Ajmere (see a separate 

 paper on this species, which will appear in an early number of the 

 Ibis) E. Huttoni is a permanent resident and not, as has been sup- 

 posed, a visitant from the Himalayas. This is of course the bird 

 referred to by S y k e s as E. hortulana. 



800. Pterocks fasciatus. — It is strange that I have never noticed 

 the crepuscular habits of this bird. I have shot scores of it. One 

 day, Mr. P. E. Blewitt and myself bagged over a dozen within a 

 circle of half a mile at Tirkee in Goorgaon, not many miles from 

 the famous sulphur springs at Soria. Only the other day I shot 

 a pair not far from Kishengurh in Kajpiitana in bright daylight, 

 as they came down to drink, and I have seen them at the water's 

 edge in the mornings at least a dozen times. They are very com- 

 mon in Upper India wherever there are low rocky hills with a 

 little scrub jungle at the base, quite as common as P. exustus in the 

 sandy open plains. I have shot both these species and arenarius 

 in the same morning in the Goorgaon district, but alchata, our 

 fourth. Indian species very rarely I think crosses the Indus, though 

 it is abundant enough in the cold season at Hot Murdan and other 

 trans-Indus Panjab posts, where it is known to sportsmen as the 

 bronze-winged Sand-grouse. 



819 bis. Francolinus n. sp. — I do not doubt that the Cutch 

 species is distinct, I propose to name it after my valued friend and 

 contributor, Dr. Kin g, whose paper on the Birds of Goona is no- 

 ticed more than once by Mr. B 1 a n f o r d. I had intended describing 

 this species in the Ibis, but the only specimen I had, was such a 

 vile rag, that I hesitated to do so, and in a weak moment, sent it to 



