488 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXV. 



On the 12th (General Peebles, Capt. Haughton and I). Two 

 guns got five lost two in addition to the five bagged and missed 

 five ; we calculated there were fifteen birds there. Owing to opera- 

 tions we did not get another chance of trying the place. 



The following are the measurements of the 8 birds bagged : — 



The above measurements were made by putting pins into a 

 board on which the bird was laid and then measuring the distance 

 between the pins with a protractor. The first bird of the 12th was 

 an enormous one and I got him weighed at a hospital and though 

 the accuracy of the weight is open to doubt, it was just a shade 

 over 11 oz. The other snipe were not weighed on scales, but were 

 roughly weighed against Common Snipe and=3 Common Snipe. 



The Solitary Snipe were in good condition and the Common 

 Snipe were skeletons almost. 



14. Common or Fantail Snipe — Gallinago ccelestis. 



Common and plentiful wherever there is suitable ground. Seen 

 up till May 8th. First wisps coming in seen and shot on 

 August 19th. 



15. Jack Snipe — Gallinayo gallinula. 



Saw and shot one at Wadi, March 11th and one at Harbe, 

 April nth, 1917. 



16. Painted Snipe — Rostratula capensis. 



Not seen though I heard of one being shot near Wadi, but 

 the bird had been cooked and eaten and I was unable to see any 

 feathers. 



17. Swan, 



Variety unknown, thirteen seen flying over the Suweikieh Marsh, 

 22nd and 23rd of January. 



18. Grey Lag Goose — Anser ferus. 



Large numbers in winter. I fancy these geese breed in the large 

 marshes in small numbers, though the majority appear to migrate. 

 Seen at Sannaiyat up to 8th May. Thirteen birds seen on 

 Suweikeih Marsh at Hanna, 7th July, got to within 100 j^ards of 

 them with L. J. Macdouald, all birds seemed through glasses the 

 same size and old ones. 



Saw a few in the thick reed marshes about Ezra's Tomb on the 

 3rd and 4th July 1917. 



19. Dwarf Goose — Anser erythrojms. 



Saw five on the Wadi, 20th-21st March ; tried hard to get a shot, 

 but they were very shy. On the 2l8t we tried to drive them but 

 unfortunately though they flew over my companion he missed 



