In the 1943, December issue, Scolopax rusticola, the Woodcock, is described as a rare winter visitor. As to its being a winter visitor, yes, but personally, I should not find it rare, but I may have been fortunate in my locality. My estate is 3,600 ft, above sea level situated on the inner slopes of the Western Ghats. A bird I have not seen mentioned is the Malay Bittern Gorsachius melanolophus, the first one I saw and shot in 1904. And at the time the society did not possess a specimen, since then I have seen quite a few mainly in the bamboo jungle of the Bhadra valley.