MISCHLLAMJOI.S .XOTJJi;. 74/ 



Ibises on tieUls Hooileil with caunl water. While occasionally solitary, it 

 is usually to be seeji in siuall parties of four or live to a dozen individuals. 



In tho neighbouring district of Ferozepori,' I cannot recollect seeing the 

 species, but 1 have the following notes on its occurrence in certain districts 

 of the Punjab : — 



Amhaht district, 1915-1'). A favourite resort of this species was the Ghag- 

 i;ar nala close to where it debouches from the foot hills about Chandighar ; 

 here I fomul a large flock resting in the nala about noon on lOth November, 

 and many individuals, including a party of 11, wheal was therc:! again in 

 February and March. It also appeared to be sparsely distributed through 

 the district during the winter months. I was not there in summer. 



(rKidasjjiir district, llUo. Two were seen near Gurdaspur on loth Jiuie. 



La/tore district. Mr. A. J. Currie writes (Jour. B. N. H. S. xxiv, •'576) 

 '• r have seen this stork at Lahore in September, and on one or two other 

 unrecorded dates in the cold weather." 



Ciiijranvala district, 191o. "One was seen from the train between Guj- 

 ranwala and Kamoke on :?9th March. One was seen on some fli)oded rice 

 fields in Gujranwala im oth July. Two were seen from the train near 

 Akalgarh on 3rd October, soaring in the sky with some vultures." (Jour. 

 P.. N\ H. S. xxiv, 709). 



J/ulum ilistrict, 1914. "Two were seen at Saugor on the 1st of February 

 and 2 (possibly the same) flying down the river near the Rak at Jhelum on 

 April li'th" {Ips(' Ibis, li»lU, p. 113). 



dhan;/ district, 1917. On 19th November two birds and then a solitary 

 individual were seen near Chund Barwana, and on S5th December a nest 

 was found in my presence by Lieut. Claude B. Ticehurst, m.b.o.u. 



This nest was situated on the extreme summit uf a lofty Keekur tree 

 standing by the side of a .small half dry Jheel about 5 miles S.-W. of 

 Ivadirpur. The nest was a flat structure of large sticks, plentifully bespat- 

 tered with whitewash, and said by the climber to be lined with grass. It 

 contained 4 eggs. One bird was sitting on the eggs and the other stand- 

 ing on or near the side of the nest. There were some Black Storks {Cico- 

 nia iiif/ra) feeding on the Jheel, but neither their departure nor the excite- 

 ment consequent en the flying of a trained Shahin Falcon at a Pond Heron 

 disturbed the pair. When they were finally roused one bird flew away but 

 the other kept on circling round and settled on a neighbouring tree, clat- 

 tering her bill at the approach of one of the members of our party. 



The White-necked Stork does not yet appeared to have been recorded 

 north of the Salt Ifange or from the North- West Frontier Province. While 

 further details of its range and status in the Punjab are desirable, enough 

 has been said to shew that the species may be considered by no means 

 uncommon in the province : it would, however, be interesting to know if 

 this is a recent extension of range connected with the gradual transform- 

 ation of the country by the various canal projects. 



.hiAXo, Pi-NJAi;, HUGH WHISTLER, m.b.o.u., f.z.s., 



Jan. 1918. (Indian Police). 



No. IX.— COMB DUCK {SARCIJJIOENLS MELAXONOrUS) IN SIND. 



I write to record the occurrence of a Nukhta or Comb Duck, l^arcidiDrni.-i 

 vielanonotus, in Sind. 



On the 15th instant I was shooting on a jheel near IJajo Khanani in the 

 extreme north of the Tando Bago taluka of this district. I saw a duck 

 which seemed strangelj^ familiar in flight at some distance and as it came 

 nearer, I saw it to be a male comb duck. I had a couple of long shots at it, 



