212 THE WOODCOCK. 
winter quarters outside the Himalayas, there is not, I believe,” 
a single district, intervening between these letter and the former, 
where single birds have not now and then occurred on migration. 
Outside our limits Swinhoe tells us that it occurs throughout 
China during the winter, but Pére David says that in the North- 
ern Provinces at least it is almost unknown, though he found 
it breeding in Ourato in Mongolia, at Sichan near Pekin, and in 
Moupin. It doesnot seem uncommon in Japan. Prjevalski met 
with it in April on the Murni-ul Mounts in Mongolia, and tells 
us that they breed in the Ussuri country, arid are very numerous 
there during migration. In Southern and South-eastern Siberia 
it appears in summer, and breeds in many places. In Yarkand 
it must be scarce, as neither Henderson nor Scully saw or heard 
of it, but Stoliczka procured one near Yarkand itself on the 
11th of November. In Western Turkestan it is also some- 
what rare, and seems only to have been noticed there on pas- 
sage. Hutton told us more than thirty years ago that the 
Woodcock was very common at Quettaand Kandahar, arriving 
in November and departing in May ; but, though a few have been 
noticed, and a very few killed both in Northern and Southern 
Afghanistan and Northern Beluchistan during the late war, 
no one seems to have found them common anywhere. In 
many parts of Persia they do seem very common during the 
* I may extract a few notices of localities whence Woodcock have been 
procured. 
In a cocoanut garden on the Mysore Plateau, 65 miles east of Bangalore.—(C. 
Mcinroy). Seventeen miles south-west of Belgaum, when Snipe-shooting in some 
rice fields about X’mas time. The fields were surrounded by jungle.—( 7.S. Laird). 
Masulipatam.—( frdoz). Guddam, in the Golconda Zemindari.—(J/¢Master ). 
A Woodcock was shot last Christmas day, about two miles from Tanna, by 
R. D. Cairns, of the Oriental Bank, here. It was flushed in some bushes at the 
foot of some low hills near some marshy ground.—( 7. D. Lnverarity.) 
I was taking a stroll yesterday morning (4th November) through the Lyarree 
Gardens, about two miles from Kurrachee when a Woodcock flopped lazily past me, and 
settled in a field of lucerne grass about ten yards from where I was standing. After 
turning round and round two or three times, as if trying to get out of the sun, it 
rose and flew towards some Guava trees about twenty yards off, sitting under one 
of them. ‘There was no cover, except some short grass insufficient to hide the 
bird, and I walked wp and shot it—(Z. A. Butler.) 
Aligarh, Sitapur in Oudh—(A. Anderson). Bulandshahr, Agra, Mynputi, 
Cawnpore (Hume) Fyzabadand Kheri.—(G. Reid). Berhampur, Noakhali, Dacca, 
Tippera.—_( erdon ). 
To my knowledge three veritable Woodcocks have been killed in Cachar.— 
. Inglis). 
HE ae Deputy Commissioner, Dibrugarh, writes that a few are always 
to be seen during the cold season, in suitable localities towards the head of the 
Assam Valley.—Calcutta Market—(Blyth, Hume, Parker). Thyetmyo, Bassein, 
Karenee Hills north-east of Shwaygeen.—( McMaster). Thatone —(F C. Davis). 
Kyekagaw, twenty-two miles from Rangoon, February 1865.—( 77. B. Davidson). 
Moulmein.—( David Brown, Colonel). Just under the cone of Mooleyit.—(W. 
Davison ). 
On & 28th April 1879, I flushed an undoubted Woodcock, among some willows 
on the bank of the Gyne River —(C. Bingham. ) 
Mamogan, about 10 miles from Tavoy._(H. B. Davidson). 
Dr. Armstrong caught one in the Lay of Gengal in Latitude 18° 40’ North, and 
Longitude 92° 28’ East, on the 18th November 1875. 
