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The ground colour is a dull, pale green stone colour, and it is rather sparingly 
streaked and blotched with dull, rather pale brown, somewhat greyer in some spots, 
more olivaceous in others. 
It measures 2°6 inches in length by 1°76 in breadth. 
I hope other correspondents will send me more of these rare eggs, as eggs of these 
Bustards vary so much that, without a good series, one cannot properly describe 
them, 
THE LESSER FLORICAN OR LIKH. (Vol. I, pp. 33, e¢ seg.)— 
At page 36 I quoted a remark of Mr. Davidson’s that this species was only found 
sparingly in Mysore. It appears however that insome parts of that province, at any 
rate, they are very abundant. Major McInroy says: ‘* I think I am within the 
mark when I say that near Mallur, a station on the Bangalore-Madras line of rail, 
and 25 miles from Bangalore, thirty birds were shot in one day by two officers of 
the Forest Department. Several good bags have been made in that neighbourhood. 
Florican are pretty numerous throughout East Mysore, but, for some reason which 
I cannot divine, are not nearly so common in the western division of the Province. 
**T have known four or five killed of a morning within a few miles of Samul- 
cottah, a now deserted military cantonment seven miles from Coconada.”’ 
Two eggs of this species are figured on the first of the four egg plates which follow 
this Appendix. 
THE LARGE OR BLACK-BELLIED SAND-GROUSE. (Vol. L, 
ANE yt seq.)— 
When Volume I. was published, I had no detailed information of the nidification 
of this species in Kabul or Beluchistan. But it was found breeding in numbers not 
ten miles from Kandahar during our recent occupation of that place, and in the 
neighbourhood of Chaman (also in Southern Afghanistan) Mr. H. E. Barnes found 
them breeding plentifully in May and June. 
They lay in slight depressions in the soil similar and similarly situated to those in 
which the Common Sand-Grouse lays. Mr. Barnes says: “ The eggs, three in number, 
are, as regards shape and colour, exact counterparts of those of Pterocles exustus, 
but are of course larger. They average 1°8 by 1°35.” 
An egg sent me by that gentleman, the parents of which he shot and identified, is 
a very elongated. cylindrical, dumpy, sausage-like egg ; the shell is extremely fine 
and compact, and has a fine gloss. The ground colour is a very pale green or 
greenish white, and it is moderately thickly studded with irregular spots, and small 
blotches more or less streaky in shape, of a rather pale yellowish brown and very pale, 
slightly purplish, grey. It measures 1°34 by 1°2. 
Another egg. very kindly sent me by Mr. James Murray of the Kurrachee museum, 
taken near the Jeempir Railway station, Sind, on the roth of July, and sent to him 
along with a pair of birds of this species, is very different in appearance, and is really, 
I believe, an egg of P. alchata. 
It is a decidedly shorter egg ; it has much less gloss, the ground colour isa pale 
cafe au lait, the markings are of the same colours as on the other egg, but they are more 
thinly set, and the bulk of them much smaller ; but then there area couple of great 
large splashes of both the yellowish brown and the purplish grey, which far exceed in 
size anything on the other egg. This egg measures only 1'7 by 1:2. 
It is just Zosszble, though I doubt the fact, that some few P. arenarius may breed in 
the desert country about the estuary of the Loonee, and eastwards in the Thurr and 
Pakur, north of the Runn of Cutch. Mr. R. H. C. Tufnell writes: ‘‘ The late 
General McMaster killed a bird of this species, (a male), on the plains near Sirhpoor 
(? between Ahmedabad and I)eesa) on the 74k May, but it may have been 
a chance or wounded bird, though apparently strong and quite at home. (I take 
the above from a note made by General McMaster in the margin of his Jerdon.)” 
TuE SPOTTED SAND-GROUSE. (Vol. IL, pp. 53, e¢ seg.)— 
I said that this species was only common in Sind and Jeysulmir, but it appears 
that it is also common in the southern portion of the Dhera Ghazi Khan district 
(Punjab.); Mr. Tufnell writes: ‘Near Rajanpur, on the Punjab Frontier, these 
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