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" The following are the measurements recorded in the flesh of 

 the three Schcenicolas 1 secured: — 



(a).— Male, (breeding).— Length, 6*19 ; extent, 8-06; wing, 

 2-62 ; tail, 25 ; tarsus, 0-84 ; bill, 0'6 ; at front, 0'43. 



(b).-Male, (breeding).— Length, 6*75 ; extent, 8'25 ; wing, 

 2'62 ; tail, 2-5 ; tarsus, 0-81 ; bill, 0-62; at front, 0'43. 



(c).— Female, (not breeding). — Length, 6'19; extent, 8*06; 

 wing, 2*5 ; tail, 2-43; tarsus, 087 ; bill, 0*6 ; at front, 047. 



" Irides pale clay brown ; bill above plumbeous, below pale 

 horny white ; legs, feet, and claws pale brownish. 



"Although some of the birds were obviously breeding, I 

 unfortunately failed to discover a nest/'] 



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 bonvhooi of dfhaman, #, Jiftjktttsiam 



By H. E. Barnes. 



Chaman, as most of my readers already know, is situated on 

 the Kandahar side, and at the base of a range of mountains 

 known as the Khoja Amran, and has been selected as a post 

 to guard the entrance to the Khojak Pass between Quetta and 

 Kandahar. The fort is situated within half a mile of, and 

 nearly opposite to, the entrance to this pass ; — in fact from the 

 fort itself the numerous windings of the ascent dotted here 

 and there with strings of camels laden with Commissariat 

 supplies, &c.j are visible to a great distance. East and south- 

 east of Chaman the range is continued, and to the north lies 

 an immense sandy plain covered with stunted shrubs and 

 southernwood (Artermsia Sp.), and, here and there, where rocks 

 occur, boasting a sprinkling of puny trees known as the 

 " Wun," a species of Pistacia which covers the mountain 

 heights and fills the innumerable ravines of the Amran range 

 growing, in these situations, to a height of nearly thirty feet. 



The plain referred to is singularly level, and is only broken 

 here and there, at rare intervals, by a few low rocks or sandy 

 undulating ridges and dry water-courses. This semi-desert 

 extends for nearly seventeen miles, and except the burying 

 beetle, which infests the plains, a lizard which is as numerous, 

 a few hares, foxes, chikara deer, and Corvus lawrencii, the 

 Neophron, Pterocles arenarius et coronatus and Galerida cristata, 

 the plrdn may be said to be devoid of animal life, while on the 

 mountain ranges, which rise nearly perpendicularly in some 

 places, and in others at a considerable angle, the presence of 

 Magpies, Lammergeyers, Kestrels, Chukor, and Seesee, &c, 



