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Perdicula argoondah, Syhes. 



Vernacular NaXKlSS. — [Lowa (Hindustani, Mahrathi) ; Lawunka (Telegu) 

 Sinkadeh (Tamil) ; Kemp-lowga (Canarese), Mysore. I 



T is difficult to indicate precisely the range of this 

 species. Jerdon tells us that it does not occur 

 north of the Nerbudda, but this is quite wrong, as it 

 is the common, and often the only, species in many 

 parts of the Punjab, Rajputana, the Central India 

 Agency, and the North-Western Provinces. 



The geographical range of this species is really, 

 I believe, much the same as that of the last, but their stations, 

 i.e., the localities they affect, being widely different, their 

 distribution is generally complementary to each other. 



Like the Jungle Bush-Quail, the present species extends 

 neither westwards into Sind nor eastwards into the alluvium 

 of Lower Bengal, nor, so far as we know, anywhere eastwards of 

 the Ganges. 



I do not know that it occurs in Ceylon ; all the Cinghalese 

 birds that I have seen belonged to the other species, but it 

 occurs in the Peninsula on the eastern side down to the 

 extreme south, and in all the drier eastern Madras districts, and 

 even near Coimbatore ; in the barer plains portions of Mysore ; 

 almost throughout the Deccan ; in many parts of the Nizam's 

 Territory and Berar ; in Gwalior and many parts of the Central 

 India Agency and Bundelkhand ; near Bassein, Deesa, in the 

 Panch Mahals, and in Cutch ; near Ajmere, Beaur, the Sam- 

 bhar lake, the plains below Abu, Jodhpore, and many of the 

 less desert portions of Rajputana; in Jhansi, Allahabad, Cawn- 

 pore, Etawah, Agra, Fatehgarh, Meerut, and other plains portions 

 of the North-Western Provinces, and in Delhi, Gurgaon, and 

 Lahore, and doubtless other districts of the Punjab. 

 It is of course a purely Indian species. 



It IS in the nature of the localities it affects that fas in the 

 case of the Jungle Bush-Quail) the key to its irregular distribu- 

 tion is to be found ; it avoids mountains, which it never ascends, 



