424 APPENDIX. 
“IT cannot say whether azy of the Bustard, found there during the cold season, 
migrate from Mysore; but some, at all events, breed there, as in the Tumkur 
district, to my certain knowledge, and I believe in other districts too.” 
This also confirms their breeding in Mysore, of which, whenI wrote, I had 
no certainty. 
I mentioned that they occurred, in suitable localities of course, throughout the 
Central Provinces, and several gentlemen write to confirm this. Mr. J. A. 
Betham says: ‘‘I have seen Bustard in the Betul district between Badnur and 
Muttaie, and once near Satna (between Jabalpur and Allahabad) ; in the latter 
instance the bird was close to the Railway when the train passed, and did not 
appear to mind the rattle and noise. I was surprised, for [had always imagined 
them to be very shy birds.” 
Another gentleman writes that he has seen them on several occasions near or 
within a few miles of the Bargash Railway Station of the Jabalpur line. 
It appears that in the Nerbudda valley the Vernacular (Hindee) name for 
these Bustards is, Serazloo. 
Two eggs of this species will be found very fairly figured on the first of the 
four plates of eggs that follow this Appendix. 
THE BENGAL FLORICAN, (VOL. I., pp. 23, ef seg.)— 
In speaking of this species as occurring in the North-Western Provinces, north 
of the Ganges. and mentioning that I had never met with it west of the Kadir of 
the Ganges, I did not perhaps make it sufficiently clear that I was aware that in 
that Kadir, alike on the left and right banks, it occurred in the cold season. I 
did not know. however, that it was really conz702 anywhere on the right bank, but 
Mr. A. M. Markham says: “The Bengal Florican is very common inthe Kadir 
of the Ganges (right bank) in the Mozuffurnuggur and Saharanpur districts, especially 
the former.” 
I was not moreover aware that this species ever straggled far into the Doab, 
and well away from the Ganges, but that it does so is now certain. Mr. C. E. 
Yeatman informs methat in 1865 (cold season) he saw apair and shot one, 
a fine cock, in a small dak jungle, near Secunderabad, in the Bulundshahr district ; 
that again he met with one, in the winter of 1874, in some high sandy ground 
near Shekoabad in the Mainpuri district ; and that lastly, on the 11thof December 
1879, he shot a hen just above the Jumna ravines in the south-west corner of the same 
district. Again Mr. Markham writes: ‘On the 5th of February, at Mahewa close 
to the Jumna. in the extreme west of this, the Allahabad district, I twice put up 
ahen Florican (S. dengalensis, of Jerdon). not the small Likh Florican (.S. aurztus, 
of Jerdon) of Central India, but the large Florican which we meet with in the grass 
plains of Rohilkhand and Northern Oudh. Most unfortunately I had only Quail 
shot in my gun when she first got up, and I only tickled her. and when I put her up 
the second time, she was out of shot. I could not put her up again. and next day 
had to leave the locality. I never heard of a Florican here, and am curious to know 
what you think of the occurrence. It most certainly was a Florican, and nota 
Bustard TUhave seen hundreds and shot scores of them.” 
We must therefore now admit this species as a rare straggler to the Doab and ex- 
tend its range as far west as the Jumna.* 
When I wroteI had never seen an egg, but I havesince been presented with one 
by Mr. F. A. Shillingford, who says: ‘The Florican’s egg I myself picked up in 
June last. The female bird was seated on it when I first saw her about five yards 
distant; when she rose I found one egg. There was no attempt at a nest; the 
ege was lying on damp mud with the few blades of grass that were growing near 
trodden down. Young birds have several times been caught in this district.” 
This egg is of the same type as regards texture and colouration as many of those 
which I possess of the Great Indian Bustard and Lesser Florican, but is intermediate 
in size, and conspicuously more elongated than those of either of the others. It is 
more of the shape of a hen’s egg, but rather more elongated than this even, and 
decidedly more compressed towards the small end. The shell is firm and strong, 
smooth and compact, but has little gloss. The pore-pittings are very inconspicuous. 
* Mr. Fasson says: ‘‘It may be worth noting that I have seen and shot Florican in the Mymen- 
singh district, as I see you do not mention that asa known locality. It occurs not unfrequently 
along the skirts of the Mudhopore jungle.” But Mymensing is of course in Eastern Bengal, the 
whole of which I explicitly included in its range. 
