278 Lieut. C. H. T. Wliiteliead on the 



[1504.] Sterna melanogaster. The Black-bellied Tern. 



Cumminf^, J. B. N. H. S. xvi. p. 696 (Seistan : not 

 common). 



Major Magrath observed tins species in some irrigated 

 fields near Doaba on the 18th of May, 1907. In Bannu he 

 says that it is common. 



[1526.] Phalacrocorax carbo. The Common Cormorant. 



Marshall, J. B. N. H. S. xv. p. 354 (Quetta : a few seen 

 in March). 



A fairly common bird on the Indus between Khushalgarh 

 and Makhud. It also occurs occasionally up the Kohat Toi ; 

 Capt. Lyall sent me a specimen that he h;:d shot on this 

 stream near Hangu. 



[1527.] Phalacrocorax FUSCicoLLis. The Indian Shag. 



Eattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 347. 



Colonel Rattray shot an example near Thall in February, 

 1898, after a heavy storm in the Kurram Valley : it was the 

 only one that he saw. We have never met with this species. 



[1544.] Plegadis falcinellus. The Glossy Ibis. 



1. Juv. Kohat, 1760 ft., 22nd August. 



The only example that we have seen was a bird of the year 

 which Mr. Donald shot in his garden on the 22nd of August, 

 1905, and sent to Major Magrath, who forwarded the skin 

 to the Secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society. 

 Mr. Donald flushed another on the grass-farm. 



[1545.] Platalea LEUCORODIA. The Spoonbill. 



Kattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 347 (Thall : a big flock, at 

 the end of May). 



I came across four Spoonbills on the grass-farm on the 

 30th of May, 1906. The following year, on the 30th of 

 April, Major Magrath and I were standing on the Peiwar 

 Kotal (8200 feetj when a flock of about twenty came up 

 from the Kurram and passed close overhead ; but appa- 

 rently not relishing the strong north-west wind which met 

 them as they topped the Kotal {i. e. pass), they wheeled 

 round and flew back down the valley. 



