190 Col. R. Meinertzliagen on the [Ibis. 



the imid shores, where scrubby tamarisk was growino-. 

 I never saw Iheiu on tlie shingle. 



Charadrius dubhis. 



C. d. jerdoid (Legge). 



A common summer visitor, arriving in suitable localities 

 in early March and leaving about the end of August. 

 It breeds at Khushdil and on gravelly reaches of the 

 lower Lora. 



Five nests with eggs were found from 3.vi. to 19. vi., 

 all at Khushdil, excojjt one on the Lora at Seranan. The 

 nests w«re close to the water's edge. Two lots of newly- 

 hatcheil young were seen at Khushdil on 20. vi. 



Haematopus ostralegus L. 



Observed on })assago at Khushlil on 29. iv. and 17. v. 



Himantopus himantopus. 

 //. Ji. Idmantopus (L.)- 



A Few- arrive as summer visitors in early March and leave 

 again in August. They bred at Khushdil in 1913 and 1914, 

 but in the latter year a sudden rise in the water flooded all 

 the eggs and no young were hatched. Full clutches of 

 three were laid by 10. vi. 



Recurvirostra avosetta. 

 //. a. arosetta L. 



These birds arrive singly or in pairs in early March, but 

 are never common. In 1914 they did not breed at Khushdil. 

 In 1913 one pair nested there, but in handling the eggs the 

 apology for a nest was accidentally disturbed. On the fol- 

 lowing morning a similar clutch of eggs was found on the 

 opposite side of the lake, some 600 yards across, wdiere 

 there had been no nest the previous day, and the eggs had 

 gone from the original nest. As there was but one pair of 

 these birds on Khushdil at the time, they must have trans- 

 ported their eggs somehow across the lake, 



