304 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1891. 



At all events, whatever its name, orocrotahis or crispus, this large 

 white bird breeds near Fao in Persia, as owing to the kindness of 

 Mr. Cumrning, I have an egg taken personally by him in that 

 locality. 



This egg is pure white and is much larger than any I have seen of 

 Pelecanus philippinus, * measuring 3'5 inches in length and 2'3 

 inches in breadth. 



I -have included this bird, the Gulls, Terns, and Flamingos, 

 although they have not all of them, strictly speaking, been found 

 breeding within our limits, yet their eggs are to be found in most 

 "Western Indian Collections of any note, and as they most probably 

 breed in many of the islands off our coast, during the monsoons, 

 when they are most of them practically inaccessible. We know 

 this to be the case on the Vingorla Rocks, and broken eggs-shells 

 have been found on several of the others. 



1005.— THE LARGE CORMORANT. 

 Phalaerocorax carbo, Lin. 



The Large Cormorant is very rare, even if it occurs at all, in the 

 Konkan, and it has not, so far as I know, ever been recorded from 

 Ratnagiri, but in most other parts of Western India it is a more or 

 less common visitant. In Sind it is a permanent resident, breeding 

 during the months of July, August and September. 



Mr. Doig, to whom I am indebted for eggs of this bird, as well 

 as for many others, found them breeding in a vast colony in a large 

 swamp in the Eastern Narra District. The breeding ground was 

 about a mile long and eighty yards wide. 



The nests were platforms, composed of sticks and twigs more or 

 less scantily lined with rushes and grass. They were placed on 

 tamarisk trees growing in water, and were from four to six feet 

 above the water, so that he could easily reach them by standing up 

 in the boat. They use the same nest during successive seasons, 

 adding a few sticks to the old nest. Mr. Doig remarks that owing 

 to this habit, many of them were as much as three feet thick. 



The eggs, usually six, occasionally only four or five, and very rare- 

 ly seven in number, are long ovals in shape, pointed at the small end ; 



* Pelecanus manillensis, Oates. 



