APPENOIX. 
SUBSEQUENT to the publication of Volumes I. and II. and the 
printing off of Volume III., a few notes have been received in 
regard to some of the species therein treated of. Another 
Tragopan has been added to our Avifauna, and the female of 
the Crestless Moonal, unknown when Volume I. was published, 
has been procured. 
The additional information thus made available is reproduced 
below. 
THE GREAT INDIAN BUSTARD. (Vol. I, pp. 7, ef seg.)— 
In the first place I was wrong in supposing that this species does not cross the 
Jumna northwards, and eastwards into the North-Western Provinces. It is shown 
that itis a permanent resident of parts of the Mozuffernuggur district, occurs in 
Saharanpur, and probably in Meerut likewise. 
Mr. Frederic Wilson writes : “ There are always, at this time of the year 
(November roth), a few of the Great Indian Bustard east of Mozuffernuggur, on 
the high ground just before the dip into the Ganges Kadir. My son had a rifle 
shot at one, and so had my assistant, both missing. I myself came across a flock 
of sixteen one day, but did not get a shot. I shall probably go down in that 
direction this cold weather, and will try and send you one.” 
And Mr. F. W. Butler says: “* You say that the Great Indian Bustard does not 
occur in the North-Western Provinces, north and east of the Jumna, but some 
few birds of this species are really always to be found in the Mozuffernuggur district 
all through the year. 
“T yesterday put one up about six miles from my house, a cock. I saw a dead 
bird some years ago, that had been killed for Mr. George Palmer, cs. An inspector 
of mine wounded a cock badly last January. Some years ago, while riding across 
from Roorkee to Bijnour, I saw a number of birds on some sandhills, which I then 
believed to be Vultures. I had then never seen the Great Bustard. I was struck 
by the birds, and watched them for sometime. Eventually I rode into them, and 
put them up ;this was during the rains. I have no doubt now, especially after 
reading your remarks (p. 11,) that these birds were Bustards. 
** Between the line of the railway and the Ganges canal, from near Roorkee to, 
I believe, Ghazeeabad, there runs a broken range of sandhills. Along this tract, 
right and left of the range, the land is high and sandy (éA00r), and here Bustards 
are to be found. I cannot positively assert that they extend into the Meerut district, 
but I believe such to be the case ; and certainly a bird is to be occasionally seen 
during the rains in the Saharanpur district, east of Deobund. 
‘¢ In this district (Mozuffernuggur) they are to be found all the year round, and 
one was caught alive here some years ago for Mr. Craigie Halket by some 
bahelias. 
‘‘The Bustard I saw yesterday, I flushed within a quarter of a mile of the Grand 
Trunk Road, (Meerut to Roorkee) on some door land close to a police outpost. 
“Tn 1871, I was in the Mirzapur district. I was told by natives, and also I think 
by Mr. Pollock, c.s., that both Bustard and Florican were to be found some miles 
from the station, along the great Deccan road. 
‘*Mr. Ward Smith, an Assistant Engineer, D. P. W., stationed here, tells me he 
frequently sees Bustard about Jowlee in the Mozuffurnugger district.” 
I wrote somewhat doubtfully of the occurrence of this species in Mirzapur and 
Rewah. As to the former Mr. Butler, as above, confirms what I had heard, and 
as to Rewah, Major McInroy writes: “ Ido not know why the Bustard should 
not be found in Rewah, for it is, or used to be, exceedingly common all round 
Nagode, 
