To the Editor of the Norru-Cuiwa Day News.
Sir,—I am given to understand on fairly credible authority that a bird, which, if not a Bob White was, at leas! uncommonly S like the real article, was seen at the Bubbling Well on Saturday afternoon, The description of the stranger tallies in all respects with the account given of the bird in Wood's Natural History.
It is said to be rather sinaller than a bamboo partridge, of brownish hue, with russet feathers under the eyes, short, bent tail, and yellowish whitish crescent under the lower mandible. Its flight was short, sharp and noisy, and quai lish in the extreme, As the bird attracted the attention of several natives in the immediate neighbourhood, it is possible that the efforts of the ornithological member of the Municipal Council, if properly directed through its admirable police enquiry office, might lead to the discovery of the kind and nature of the little stranger.
It is almost too much to hope that one of the sixty Bob Whites liberated at Kashing last year is amongst us, but it is quite conceivable that one of the three birds set free at Tungkadoo may have wandered to the spot where he is supposed to have been seen.
Perhaps some belated passer-by may chance to hear its plaintive even-song Tam, etc, 19th June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.