282 BIRDS NESTING ON THE EASTERN NARRA. 



seen 



,.,-,» " Tilloor" there in the months of May and June. This 

 year in September a man voluntarily informed me one day that 

 he had seen the eggs of the " Tilloor" in the desert, at a place 

 near where my man had seen the birds, and, strange to say, he 

 described the eggs as being of an uniform buff or deep cream 

 colour without any markings.* 



893.— Tringoides hypoleucus, Lin. 



On the 3rd July my man found a nest of this species^ con- 

 taining two eggs ; he shot the parent bird, which he saw sitting 

 on the%ggs, as it left the nest. This he carbolized aud sent 

 to me ; the eggs being hard set he was unable to preserve. I 

 sent fragments of the carbolized bird to Mr. Hume, who identi- 

 fied them as belonging to this species. The nest was a few 

 shells aud sand scraped together near the waters' edge of a 

 salt deposit, and on these the eggs were laid. ' The eggs, my 

 man described, as being similar to those of Mgialitw minuta, 

 but larger and more strongly marked. 



933.— Ardetta cinnamomea, Gm. 



Found a nest on the 3rd August of this species in a thick 

 clump of reeds in the middle of a swamp ; it contained four 

 fresh eggs. The nest was a platform of coarse grass and reed, 

 the eggs were nearly perfect ovals, of a chalky white colour. 



Additions to the Sind Avifauna. 



13. — Falco subbuteo, Lin. — On the 9th June at Hydrabad, my 

 man brought me a nearly adult female of this species which he 

 had shot in the babool grove below the camp. Being busy at 

 the time, I was unable to look it up in Jerdon, but 1 sent it to 

 Mr. Hume, saying I thought it was a strange-looking falcon, and 

 he identified it as belonging to this species. 



709. — Passer pyrrhonotus, Bly. — Found, as already mentioned 

 above. 



* Natives can rarely describe eggs correctly. The eggs of the Houbara, according 

 to good figures, ai'e of precisely the same type as those of Otis tarda and tetrax, 

 Euvodotis edwardsi, Sypheotis bengalensis, and Sypheotides auritus. — A. O. H. 



