1118 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXVlll. 
The plate of the Monal {Lophophorus impejanus), which is by the way mis- 
called L. refulgens on the plate, is rather unhappy. The birds are not very well 
dra-vra and the one representhig the cock fails to show the line of shining met- 
allic green, which extends from the lower side neck, backward from the mantte 
and breast as mentioned by Beebe. This is a most noticeable feature in full 
plumaged birds. It is to be hoped that a new plate of this species will be given 
when Vol. Ill of this series is pubhshed in book form. 
It is rather difficult to follow the exact area included by Sir. Stuart Baker 
in this series. He evidently includes Tibet which can hardly be called India, 
and what about the mclusion of such species as the Chinese Blood Pheasant 
{Ithagenes sinensis) ? He gives no distribution of this species, but Beebe in 
his monograph vTitmg of this bird says: — “The Northern Blood Partridge 
inhabits the subalpme slopes of the mountains of central China, the eastern 
Nanshan momitains m Kansu, and eastwards along the highlands of the Hoang - 
ho River, tbrough central and southern Shensi in the Tsinghng Range, and on 
into Eastern Honan. Southward we fhid it in north central Szechuan. Future 
thorough exploration vdll reveal much more of the range of this partridge, but 
at present we may roughly indicate its distribution by a triangle, with the points 
respectively at 102'^ E. 38^ N. m the north ; 111‘^ E. SI'’ N. m the east, and 
103“ E. 31“ N. in the south.” 
The Chinese Eared Pheasant's (C. mantchuricum) distribution is given by 
Mr. Stuart Baker as “ The Moimtains of Manchuria and North-Eastern China.” 
This can hardly be called India. 
I also note that IVIi-. Baker includes Cabot’s Tragopan {Tragopan caboti) in his 
key but do not \mderstand why he does so, as he liimself says : — “ At present 
five species are known, aU of which, with the exception of (the italics are mine) 
the Eastern Chinese bird, Tragopan caboti, come within the areas included in 
these articles”. He also, for some unknown reason, gives aU the sjmonyms 
and the vernacular name of this species but does not continue with the descrip- 
tion. 
By a clerical error the Ceylon Spur-Fowl {Galloperdix bicalcarata) is called the 
Ceylon Jungle-Fowl. 
I do not know whether Mr. Stuart Baker intends to follow Beebe in his 
classification of the Kahj Pheasants, when publishing Vol. Ill of tliis series, 
but I may mention that the latter author relegates Gennaeus h. williamsi, 
G.l. oatesi, G.l. sharpei, G. n. ripponi, and G. n. rufipes to wild hybrids. He also 
includes Mrs. Hume's Pheasant (P. h. hurnice) and the Burmese Barred-back 
Pheasant (P. h. burmanicus) in the genus Syrrrvaticus instead of Phasianus, on 
accoimt of those birds wanting the disintegrated rump feathers of the true 
Phasianus and on account of their long central tail feathers. 
Now coming to the Partridges IVIr. Stuart Baker gives us in his key of 
the Francohns, F. p. pondicerianus, F. p. interpositus, and F. p. mecranensis, 
but up to date through some oversight none of the Grey Partridges have been 
described. I brought this to the notice of the Editors of the Journal sometime 
ago as soon as the articles on Arboricdla were started. 
In the last number of the Journal (No. 3 of Vol. XXVIII) Mr. Baker gives 
the trivial name of Perdix h. hodgsonice as the Tibetan Partridge but on 
the plate it is called Mrs. Hodgson's Partridge. 
Now coming to Mr. Stuart Baker’s “List of the Birds of India,” there are a 
good number of clerical errors which I would like to draw to the attention of the 
Editors so that when the list is published in book form they may be corrected. 
I ■will take number by number. 
In Vol. XXVIl, No. 2, the word Jungle has been omitted from the trivial 
name of No. 8 and in No. 170 the ii has been omitted from the name earlii. 
In No. 3 of the same volume, Mr. Baker -writes that Tesia and Oligura are 
probably Wrons, but does not seem to have put them into the Troglodytidce 
