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131. Rhynch^a BENGALENsis (Linn.). 



Noticed on two or three occasions in the marshes about 

 Gandarbal in June. There we took two nests in the end of 

 that month with one and four fresh eggs respectively. 



132. ToTANus ocHROPUs (Linn.). 



On the 5th May we saw three Green Sandpipers at Sona- 

 murg, no doubt on migration, 



133. Tringoides hvpoleucus (Linn.). 



We saw the Common Sandpiper occasionally along the 

 Jhelum in April, and all along the Sind River in May and 

 June. It was breeding on the banks of the Sind River, and 

 we obtained two nests, each with four eggs, on the 8th and 

 20th June, at Sonamurg and Gund respectively. 



134. ToTANUS CANESCENS (Gm.). 



We noticed a good many Greenshanks on the Woolar 

 Lake in April, and our boatmen stalked a flock and shot 

 several. In India they are generally singly or in pairs. 



135. HiMANTOPUS CANDIDUS (BoUU.). 



We saw a small flock of Stilts on the banks of the Jhelum 

 in the Kashmir Valley in April. 



136. Hydrophasianus chirurgus (Scop.). 



This bird breeds in enormous numbers on the Woolar and 

 other lakes in Kashmir. We obtained numbers of eggs on 

 the 25th and 26th June on the floating weeds in the marshes 

 adjoining the Woolar Lake. 



137. FuLiCA ATRA Linn. 



A^ery common on the Woolar Lake and adjacent marshes, 

 both in April and June. 



138. Gallinula chloropus (Linn.). 



Very common in all the Kashmir marshes, breeding in 

 May and June. The largest number of eggs we found in any 

 nest was nine. 



139. PoRZANA FuscA (Linn.). 



Common in the marshes about Gandarbal and in the rice- 

 fields along the Sind River as far as Gund. We took three 



