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54. Circus ^eruginosus. 



Common in the neighbourhood of marshes and lakes, and 

 frequently met with hunting along rushy streams. 



55. Haliastur INDUS. 



Common along the shores of the Gulf of Kuchh and in the 

 vicinity of large inland lakes. A specimen, killed on the 

 25th of October, on the shores of the Gulf of Kuchh, is in 

 the pale brown immature plumage. 



56. MlLVUS GOVINDA. 



Notwithstanding the number of Kites seen, I am obliged 

 to confess I never shot one. They did not, however, appear 

 to me to differ in any way from ordinary M. govinda. 



59. Elanus melanopterus. 



I never met with this species, except on one occasion, when 

 I snot an example at a place called Togana, in the west ; un- 

 fortunately the specimen was one of those afterwards de- 

 stroyed ; but the details given in my notes are : — Length 12'5 

 inches, wing 10" 25, irides crimson, cere yellow, legs pale yel- 

 low, second quill longest. 



68. Otus brachyotus. 



I have met with this species in the cold weather when shoot- 

 ing in the grass preserves. 



69. ASCALAPHIA BENGALENSIS. 



Common. 



76. Athene brama. 



Very common. 



82. HlRUNDO RUSTICA. 



Hirundo javanica, Scopoli. 



Common. 



In November of 1871 there was some very unseasonable 

 weather in Kattiawar. Three days of heavy rain, with a cold 

 east wind, destroyed an immense quantity of grain collected 

 in the village thrashing-yards, and killed numbers of sheep, 

 goats, and cattle all over the province. On one of these days 

 I observed a party of Swallows sitting about on the ground, 

 and shot one, which, at the time, I took to be H. rustica, and 



