42 Dr. H. Gadow on the Birds 



148. NyROCA FERRUGINEA (Gm.). 



This is the commonest Duck in Kashmir. We saw 

 numbers in Aprils and they seemed equally common in June. 

 We took one nest at Gandarbal, in a marsh. It was a large 

 structure^ comjoosed of dried reeds and down, and contained 

 six partially-incubated eggs. Other eggs were brought to 

 us, some as early as May. 



149. Tachybaptes fluviatilis (Tunst.). 



The Little Grebe breeds abundantly on all the marshes and 

 lakes in the Kashmir Valley. We obtained many nests on 

 the 25th June ; the largest number of eggs in any nest was 

 seven. 



150. Larus ridibundus Linn. 



We saw a number of Gulls on the Dal Lake on the 28th 

 April. They were too wild, for us to obtain a specimen, and 

 as they were not in breeding-plumage we cannot be certain, 

 but they seemed to be of this species. 



151. Hydrochelidon hybrida (Pall.). 



We found this Tern breeding in large numbers on most of 

 the marshes. We obtained many eggs on the 25th June, 

 mostly fresh, but some incubated ; they were laid on floating 

 weeds. 



II. — A List of the Birds of the Island of Rotumah. 

 By H. Gadow, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 



Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, B.A., Cains College, Cambridge, 

 a member of the Coral-boring expedition to Funafuti, went 

 afterwards in H.M.S. 'Penguin^ to Rotumah, a small 

 island 300 miles north of the Fiji group, where he spent 

 three months, from September to December 1896. He 

 collected there examples of the following birds, which, 

 preserved in spirits, he has presented to the Cambridge 

 Museum of Zoology. The field-notes have been copied from 

 Mr. Gardiner's diary. 



I am indebted to Dr. R. B. Sharpe for naming the 

 specimens of Aplonis tabuensis and Ptilopus porphyraceus, as 



