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directly the rains begin to fill them, they appear, though there 

 may have been no water for three or four mouths. 



138. AcTiTis GLAREOLA. (Wood Sandpiper.) 

 Excessively common in the cold season. 



139. AcTiTis ocHROPUS. (Green Sandpiper.) 

 Extremely common in the cold season ; rarely seen in May, 



June, July, and August : is by far the most common Sandpiper 

 in Oudh ; the Wood Sandpiper ranking next in numbers. The 

 Green Sandpiper is the only one I noticed in Kumaon, vs'here I 

 twice saw and shot it in May, on a small stream near Almorah. 

 In Oudh, every little puddle by the roadside, and every pond 

 outside the villages, has one or more of these birds running at 

 the edge, and they are so tame that you can walk within a yard 

 of them. 



140. AcTiTis HYPOLEUCOS. (Common Sandpiper.) 

 Very common in the cold season. 



141. LiMosA .aiGocEPHALA. (Black-tailcd Godwit.) 

 Found in large flocks in the cold season. 



The Bar-tailed Godwit, L. lapponica, has, I believe, occurred 

 in Nepal. Terekia cinerea is common in India ; but I never saw 

 one, which is rather singular, as I paid more attention to the 

 Grallatores than to any other order. 



142. NuMENius ARCUATUS. (Curlcw.) 



Found during the cold season in very large flocks on the 

 sand-banks of the rivers Gogra and Choka. 



143. NuMENius pHjEopus. (Whimbrel.) 



Three seen at a half-dried jheel near Hurdui, in February 

 1859 ; the only time that I noticed it. 



144. Tringa canutus. (Knot.) 

 Seen near Cawnpore in September. 



145. Tringa subarquata. (Pigmy Curlew.) 

 Observed occasionally in the cold season. 



146. Tringa cinclus, (Dunlin.) 



Seen in the cold season in company with the two next species, 

 but was not common. 



