250 F. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kachh. [No. 3, 
white. This partridge is extremely common throughout the country, it is 
quite a homely bird and often enters houses. It invariably roosts on trees, 
particularly on the Kundu, two or three generally sitting together on a 
branch between a thick cover of foliage. It generally goes to roost shortly 
after sunset. 
827. Pebdictji.a, asiatica, Not common. 
All the feathers of the upper plumage have in the male one, or generally 
two, tawny spots along the shafts, bordered with dark. 
829. Cotubntx communis. Local. 
832. Ttjenix taigook. I have seen and shot this quail only on two 
occasions, they were solitary males. 
836. Eupodotis edwajiusii. Not common. (The bustard of Europeans). 
837. Hotjbaba Macqueenit. Common, and though generally distri- 
buted, it is most abundant in the eastern and southern portions of Kachh. 
839. SvpniooTinES auritus. The florican is not found during the 
winter, but is very abundant during the rains. 
8405**. Cuesorius Jamesoni, Jordon, ? = gaulicus. Very common. 
Wing G-3 to 0-75, tail 24 to 27, tarsus 27 to 27, bill at front 78 to 
1 inch. In the young the whole of the upper plumage is isabellino, crossed 
by somewhat, undulating dark lines or narrow bands, and the black wing 
feathers are margined towards the tips with pale ; the lower plumage is 
generally albescent throughout, pale isabelline on breast and with a few 
brown cross lines. The first change is indicated by the appearance of the 
white occipital band, then comes the ashy on the occiput, then the lower 
black band from behind the eye, and at last the cross black band, separating 
the ashy from the white on the hind occiput. As this gradual change in 
the occipital bands takes place, the brown lines on the other plumage are 
gradually disappearing, and young birds shot in January still had them on 
the wing coverts and on the vent, but somewhat later every trace of the 
brown lines disappeared, and in the adult the isabelline plumage has a 
conspicuous rufcscent tinge on forehead, hind nock, scapulars and on the 
upper side of the tail. 
I have no specimen of the European bird to compare, but as far as I 
remember it from having often seen it in former years in Southern Hungary, 
it strikes me that the flight and the habits of C. gallicus are somewhat 
different. The Indian bird appears to be more solitary, its flight seems to 
be slightly heavier, and the voice more shrill. 
849. 2Egialites cueonicus. Common. 
Gray (Hand!, HI, 15) gives curonicus, Besck, as synonym of Jluvia- 
tilis, but quotes PJiilippinm , Lath., from India. 
8o2. Cuettusia ? gregaiua. Very common in open country, and 
often seen with Oursorius. 
