THE GAME BIRDS OF IBDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON. 827 
Col. H. L. Haugliton sends me the folio \song accoimt of a morning’s 
shoot which is quite typical of the See-see and the sport to be 
obtained with this bird. 
“I once knew a Colonel who declared that he had shot every feather 
o£E a See-see and then it had flown away naked !!! 
“This may be somewhat of an exaggeration of the See-see’s powers 
of resistance to shot, but it serves to bear out my own limited experience 
that this little partridge is not an easy bird to hit, and that even when 
hit the bird is by no means always in the bag. 
“As regards the first proposition it may be said that the colouring 
of the See-see blends so well with the hues of the terrain in which he 
is usually to be found that he is not easy to see either dead or alive. 
Again, though he moves at a good pace it is not his speed but the fact 
that as often as not he is on the curve, dropping or fast disappearing 
round a corner that makes him difficult to hit against a backgroimd 
into which he merges so well. 
“ Supposing, however, he is hit. If he falls dead and you see him 
fall, mark the spot and pick him at once, well and good. If on the 
other hand, he has a spark of life left in him he well hide away in a 
manner which will cause you to lose many precious minutes looking 
for him, or you may lose him altogether. 
“A hole in a cliff, a cre\’ice under a rock, any nook or cranny will 
serve him as a refuge, and as the ground he haunts is full of such 
harbours of refuge it is wonderful how quickly he will disappear. To 
make matters worse you often cannot actually see him fall, for when 
you put him up he instinctively makes for some nullah or water course 
the edge of which he reaches just as you fire : down he goes over the- 
edge and sometimes you are in doubt as to whether you have hit him 
at all. 
“AJmost any low foothills or network of sandy, stony nullahs in 
the North West Frontier Province or the Northern Punjab hold See-see, 
and as typical examples one might take the Margalla Range which 
crosses the Rawalpindi-Peshawar Road, or the water-worn nullahs 
which, running from the Frontier hills, intersect the Peshawar Plain. 
A day after See-see probably means getting other game as well, 
such as grey partridge, a hare or two, possibly some sand grouse and 
in some places Chukor. In this respect the Phandu nullah near Pesha- 
war used to be in the old days a most attractive spot, and an entry 
in my game-book recalls a very pleasant and profitable morning spent 
there. My first impression of that day is scarcely a pleasant one for 
it consists of a recollection of a start in the dark and a drive in the bit- 
ter cold of a Peshawar morning before dawn. This early start was 
necessary in order to reach the ground in time to catch any possible 
sand grouse that might come to water at the shallow stream which in 
those days — though I believe no longer — meandered down the Phandu 
nullah from the Bara River. Ears tingled in the cold which brought 
