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(H) Three birds, the skin of one of which is in the British 

 Museum, shot by Mr. E. H. WatsQn in the Hewan district of Hind, 

 on tlie 12th February, 1H78. The same year many more were seen, 

 and in five cases a pair was shot, but no skins preserved. In June 

 of the same year, out of a herd of these birds, one was shot by Major 

 Waterfield and one by Mr. D. B. Sinclair, and on the 7th July the 

 latter gentleman saw another Swan in the Julabad Jheel, near 

 Peshawar. 



(4) In 1900 Mr. Jones of the Indo-European Telegraph 

 Company shot two Swans out of a herd of nine on January 10th. 



(5) In the Karachi Museum there is the skin of a bird which 

 was captured by Mr. Gumming, plate-layer, after it had injured 

 itself against a telegraph-wire. This was on the 18th January, 

 1900, and the bird formed one of a herd of eight. 



(6) Two Swans were captured in nets by natives on the 6th 

 February, 1900, at Sita Road Station. 



(7) At Boston on the Beluchistan Frontier four Swans were shot 

 by Mr. Matthews, plate-layer, early in February, 1900. 



(8) In the same year Mr. J. Crerar, I.C.S., shot one about the 

 middle of March on the Manchur Lake, Sind. 



(9) At the end of March the same year ten Swans were seen and 

 repeatedly fired at by Mr. Vivien on the Laki Lake. 



(10) On the '27th April, 1900, a Swan was shot by Mr. Wragge, 

 plate-layer, at Metong, about 12 miles from the Indus. 



(11) In the same year Major-Geueral Egerton saw a herd of 

 Swans at Kandian on the Indus. 



(12) In the end of March, 1910, Captain H. O'Brien obtained one 

 at Nowshera. 



(13) Mr. P. Lord shot one on the River Sohan, Punjab, on the 

 2()th January, 1911. 



(14) In 1911, on 6th February, Mr. L. C. Glascock shot one near 

 Lahore. 



Nidification. — This Swan is said to breed gregariously, so it is to 

 be presumed that it is not so pugnacious a bird in its feral as in its 

 domestic state. Certain birds which belonged to Shakespeare's birth- 

 place used to breed every year on the River Avon ; but these showed 

 the keenest jealousy of one another, and no approach of any strange 



