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the wooded rocky hills in the south of the Allahabad district. They are fairly com- 
mon there.” 
Mr. W. Forsyth remarks: ‘‘I have shot the Painted Spur-Fowl at Rhotas, a place 
30 or 40 miles up the Sone from Dehree, where the Grand Trunk Road crosses that 
river. It is common in the hills on the Gya and Shahabad sides of the river.” t 
And Captain E. A. Butler writes: “I have just examined a skin of this species 
shot near Gokak, about 40 miles north-north-west of Belgaum. The man who shot 
it told me that he saw five or six more at the same time, and that he fancied it was 
not uncommon about the hills in that neighbourhood.” 
THE HIMALAYAN SNow-Cock. (Vol. I., pp. 268, et seg.)— 
Speaking of this species I said that it probably extended west of Kashmir into 
Afghanistan. Lieutenant Fairbrother, of the 29th P. N. I., writing from Kurrum, 
29th June 1880, says: ‘‘A party which ascended the highest peak (Seetaram, 
15.000 feet) a week ago, came across a brood of Snow-Cock, and captured all the 
chicks (nine I think), but later released them. The parents were not obtained, 
though fired at with a small rifle, the party having no gun.” As no specimens were 
preserved, we cannot even yet be quite fosétéve what the species is that inhabits the 
Sufaid Koh, but there is little doubt that it is the same as the Himalayan one. 
In speaking of the habits of this species, I remarked that, although I had always 
found them wild and wary, I had Aeard that in some parts of the hills they were 
extremely tame. Lt. A. C. Bruce, R.E., confirms the accounts I had received 
from others of their tameness, He says :— 
“Tn 1875. I myself shot the Himalayan Snow-Cock, about 13.000 feet above sea 
level, above the Neelni Nulla in Kashmir. The best description of the place 
where I actually shot these birds, will be to say that I found them on high ridges 
above the Upper Trisangum Nulla, about four easy marches from Bundypur on the 
Wooller Lake. I myself only found them in this particular place, but I have no 
doubt that there are plenty of them scattered over the district surrounding Gurais 
and Tilail ; subject to the condition they would not be found lower down than about 
13,000 feet, at any rate prior to the end of September. 
‘* Above this altitude I believe they occur throughout the higher spurs of the 
Haramook mountain, &c. 
**Where I shot the birds I could have killed a good many as there was a large 
pack thereabouts, and they were certainly the tamest game birds I ever came across. 
The largest of the two I shot was a male; it weighed 8lbs., and measured over 30 
inches in length, and 44 in expanse. The other was a female not very much smaller, 
but wanting the blunt spurs. What struck me particularly about these birds was 
their tameness and singularly musical call. When walking they carry their tails like 
an ordinary hen.” 
Major C. H. T. Marshall writes: ‘‘ Here, in Chamba, they call the Snow-Cock 
Galound.” 
An egg of this species will be found figured at the bottom of the third of the plates 
of eggs that follow this Appendix. 
THE PAINTED PARTRIDGE OR SOUTHERN FRANCOLIN. (Vol. 
II., pp. 19, e¢ seg.)— 
In describing the distribution of this species I included the Kistnah district within 
its range. A Reviewer, with the usual self-complacent ignorance of his class, 
asserted that I was wrong, and that it was the Black Partridge that occurred there. 
This was palpably absurd to any one who had studied the distribution of the two 
species, but yet it may be as well to state that Mr. J. G. Horsfall has kindly 
sent me a specimen of the Partridge found in parts of the upland taluks of the 
Masulipatam (Kistnah) district, and this proves to be, as I said, Arancolinus pictus, 
the Painted Partridge or Southern Francolin. 
When Vol, IJ. was written I was unable to ascertain on any good authority that 
this species occurred in Ceylon. Neither Layard nor Holdsworth had ever met with 
it, though the latter had heard that it did occur. Two or three residents of the 
island, whom I consulted, denied its occurrence ; and, as I had good reason to 
believe that it did not, in the Peninsula, range further south than 11°30’ North 
Latitude, I had no difficulty in accepting their statements. I have now, however, 
ascertained that a small outlying colony of this, or a very closely allied species, exists in 
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