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with 4 slightly incubated eggs on 1st August. The nest was on 

 one of the open stretches of water, but in a corner sheltered by 

 the angle of a reed bed : it was built on the soft submerged weeds 

 which filled the water, and was a mass of soft weeds, roughly 

 circular and flat, about an inch above the surface of the water. 

 The bird left the nest at my approach, and I found that the 

 weeds composing it were wet and absolutely hot to the touch. 

 The eggs were lying any how on the nest, in no sort of order. 



A party of 4 of these Jacanas were seen on the Budhan Nala 

 on 8l8t July. 



1430. The Bed wattled Lapwing — Sarcogrammus indicus (Bodd.). 



1433. The Yellow-wattled Lapwing — Sarciophonis malabaricus (Bodd). 



On 10th April 1910, I shot a pair of these Plovers in the 

 riverain area of the River Sutlej, but on the JuUundur side of 

 the River near Phillaur ; although this was actually outside the 

 area of the Ludhiana District, I take this opportunity of 

 recording the occurrence of this Plover in the Punjab where 

 it appears to be very rare. 



1447. The Little Ringed Plover — ^giaKtis dubia (Scop.). 



1454. The Curlew — Numenius arqtiata (L.). 



A party of Curlews were seen near the Budhan Nala on the 

 12th and 14th of September. 



1460. The Common Sandpiper — Totanus hypoleucus (L.) 



Single individuals were seen on 13th August, 17th September, 

 and 7th October. 



1461. The Wood Sandpiper— jTotowMS grZareoZa (Gm.). 



With the exception of a single doubtful record on 11th August, 

 I did not see any Wood Sandpipers until 7th September, on 

 which date about 30 and 40 were observed about the Budhan 

 Nala ; the rush continued throughout the month and attained 

 its greatest height during the first week of October ; for instance, 

 on 2nd October I saw about 70 or 80 of these birds in one big 

 flight on the Budhan Nala. 



1462. The Green Sandpiper — Totanus ocJiropus (L.) 



Several w^ere seen in July and August, and by September, 

 the species had become fairly common. 

 1464. The Redshank — Totanus calidris (L.). 



The Redshank was not identified with certainty before 

 7th October. 

 1466. The Greenshank — Totanus glottis (L.). 



One was seen on 25th July, and one or two in August, and 

 a few more in September: by October they were fairly common. 

 1484. The Full Snipe — Gallinago coslestis (Fronzel.). 



1487. The Jack Snipe — Gallinago gallinula (L.). 



First observed on 5th October. 



1488. The Painted Snipe — Rostratula capensis (L.) 



On 17th September I saw a w-ader feeding in the open on a 

 flooded patch of ploughed field and at first thought it was a 

 green Sandpiper ; but as I approached it squatted and allowed 

 me to come quite close when it rose and revealed a female 

 Painted Snipe, which I shot ; about 50 yards away I found 3 

 more on a patch of flooded fallow ground covered with a sparse 

 crop of short grass with a few tufts of Sarkana grass ; these I 

 saw running rapidly across the open to the tufts of grass by 

 which they squatted. I flushed them but did not fire at them. 



