Lerwa nivicola, Hodgs. 
The Snow-Partridge.

Lerwa nivicola, Hodgs., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 553; Hume, Rough Draft N.& E. no. 817.

I need not apologize for never having seen an egg of the Snow-Partridge, when even Mr. Frederic Wilson, who has been amongst them for nearly thirty years, has never yet seen one, - nay, has been unable to find, even amongst the shepherds who see the birds daily during the breeding-season, any one who has seen a nest.

He writes to me from Gurhwal:- " Of the Snow-Partridge I have failed to get eggs. It breeds on the high ridges jutting from the snow at elevations of from 12,000 to 15,000 feet, where the ground is tolerably broken and roughish, neither very rocky nor On what we call ' slopes.' The hills between the head-waters of the Ganges and Jumna, and Tonse, are favourite breeding-grounds. The chicks have first been observed about the 20th of June. I have often come across them and been amused with the parent birds, both of which keep with the brood, counterfeiting lameness to entice an intruder away. This they do, I think, better than any Partridge I know, all but letting one catch hold of them. I have tried hard the last two months for the nest and eggs, and it would be difficult to decide whether I am more surprised or dis­appointed at the failure. Knowing so well where they constantly bred, I anticipated no difficulty whatever in procuring as many eggs as I cared for, but a lot of men, out constantly from 15th May to end of June, have been unsuccessful."