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the centre of the southern portion of the Island, in about 5°50’ North Latitude. and a 
little north and south of this in the country south of Newara-Eliya and about Haputale. 
The tract occupied by them is very limited. and even in this tract they are said to 
be very sparsely distributed. I have hitherto failed to procure a specimen, and 
though the Ceylon bird is most probably. as asserted, identical with our Indian 
birds, I should not be surprised if this isolated colony proved to be at any rate a 
recognizably distinct race. Very possibly, however, the bird may have been at some 
time artificially introduced. Quail and many other kinds of Indian birds have, we 
know, been repeatedly turned loose in Ceylon. 
THE GREY PARTRIDGE. (Vol. IL, pp. 51, e¢ seg.)— 
Captain W. S. Heaviside, R.E., speaks up for the Greys. He says: “This 
despised bird is common in Shekawattee and Bikanir, and appears to me to be 
very good eating there. The flesh was more tender and juicy than usual, owing, 
I believe. to their feeding on white-ants: these insects are easily got at in that 
sandy country, as they work very much on the surface of the ground.” 
THE THIBETAN PARTRIDGE. (Vol. IT, pp. 65, y, seq.) — 
We have figured an egg of this species on the third of the plates of eggs with 
which this volume concludes. 
THE BLACK-THROATED HILL PARTRIDGE. (Vol. IL, pp. 
79, ef S€q.)—- 
On the fourth of the plates of eggs which follow this Appendix, a figure of the 
eyg of this species is given. 
THE BLACK-BREASTED OR RAIN QUAIL. (Vol. II., pp. 151, 
et seq.)— 
Three eggs of this species are figured on the fourth of the egg plates with which 
this volume concludes. 
THE BLUE-BREASTED OR PAINTED QUAIL. (Vol. IL, pp. 
161, et seg.) — 
Mr. Laird writes to say that he had confounded two species, and that the birds 
he got ten miles south of Belgaum proved to have been the Painted Bush Quail, and 
not this present species. ; 
At the same time I notice that Jerdon says that he recorded one specimen in his 
Catalogue from Belgaum. So that possibly a straggler may occur in this district 
occasionally. though hitherto neither Mr. Laird nor Captain Butler (who first drew 
attention to the matter) have met with it there. 
With reference to the distribution of this species Dr. Bidie, of the Madras Central 
Museum. writes: In December last I shot a pair of this species, near Good- 
avancherrie, Chingleput district, some 20 miles from Madras, I was shooting Snipe 
at the time, and got the cock, but lost the female amongst the long grass.” 
An egg of this species has been figured on the third of the plates of eggs which follow 
this Appendix. 
THE BURMO-MALAYAN BUTTON-QUAIL. (Vol. IL, pp. 183, 
el Séq.)— 
I stated that this species occurred in Aracan and Hill Tipperah. It might there- 
fore naturally be expected to occur in the intervening district of Chittagong. 
Accordingly Mr, H. Fasson has sent mea fine specimen shot on the 13th Decem- 
ber, at Jooykhola, Thanna Fatikchiri, in the northern part of this district, 
