286 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



The true egg is a very delicate bluish- white (skim -milk blue), but 

 this is altogether obscured by a friable chalky covering which i* 

 easily removed. 



944 Jw, —THE LESSER FLAMINGO. 



Phcenicopterus minor, G. St. Hill. 



At times the Lesser Flamingo is very common at the Sambhur 

 Lake, and has been occasionally observed in Sind. A specimen has 

 also been recorded from Secunderabad in the Deccan. 



Like the last, none remain to breed in India, but it has the same 

 slipshod way of dropping its eggs about before leaving. Mr. Hume- 

 has received several from that locality. 



A Sindhi fisherman, who used often to accompany me on nesting 

 trips, brought me an egg which he bad found on a sand bank on the- 

 Indus, some miles below Kotri. The egg was discolored and quite- 

 rotten, and burst when I attempted to clean it ; it must have been 

 lying on the sand for weeks. It was very similar to eggs of 

 Phcenicopterus antiquorum, but from its small size I feel sure that 

 it belonged to the present species, still it is quite possible that it was 

 only an abnormally small egg of its larger congener. 



I most carefully examined the huge series of Flamingo eggs in the 

 Frere Hall Museum, Karachi, but failed to detect any so small, 

 although they differed in size a good deal, 



950.— THE NUKTAH. 



The Black-headed Goose. 



The Comb Duck. 

 Sarcidiornis melanotus, Tern. 



The Nuktah is not uncommon in parts of Guzerat, Rajputana, and 

 the Deccan. It appears to be absent from Sind in the north, and 

 from Ratnagiri in the south. In most other places it occurs as an 

 occasional straggler. 



Although strictly speaking it is not migratory, yet it wanders 

 about a good deal, occurring in some parts only during the breeding 

 eeason, but as a general rule they are permanent residents where 

 found. 



