504 THE BIRDS OF THE LUCKNOW CIVIL DIVISION. 



Natatores. 



This order is also well represented, but the following addi- 

 tional species will probably hereafter have to be added : — 



966. — Querquedula formosa ... (The Clucking Teal.) 



979. — Larus ichthyaetus ... (The Great Black-headed 



Gull.) 

 ? 981 bis. — Larus minutus ... (The Little Gull.) 



988 bis. — Sterna sinensis ... (The Eastern Lesser Tern.) 



988 ter. — Sterna saundersi ... (Hume's Lesser Tern.) 

 988 quat. — Sterna gouldi ... (Gould's Lesser Tern.) 



1001. — Pelecanus onocrotalus ... (The European Pelican.) 

 1006. — Phalacrocorax fuscicollis... (The Lesser Cormorant.) 



Of these 981 bis is very doubtful, but one or two of the 

 Terns and the Pelican (? is it onocrotalus ?) ai*e almost certain 

 to be found. Captain Irby, indeed, mentions that he observed 

 981 bis in Oude in its winter dress, but while he was probably 

 mistaken, I am pretty certain that I have seen 1001, or at 

 least the species so designated in India. It is extremely doubt- 

 ful whether the Lesser Cormorant (1006) occurs. 



From the foregoing it may safely be inferred that my estimate 

 of 50 will more than cover all the species that future research 

 is ever likely to add to the list. In a level region, such as 

 this is, absolutely devoid of forest and ramified by extensive 

 tracts of usar, notwithstanding the redeeming features of well 

 wooded and highly cultivated areas, the avifauna is necessarily 

 restricted both in number and variety, as well as somewhat 

 artificially distributed, and cannot be expected to include more 

 than about 350 species, of which 313 are accounted for in the 

 list that follows. 



It seems only necessary to explain that the number prefixed 

 to each name in the list is that under which the species is 

 entered in Jerdon's " Birds of India," and Mr. Hume's List, 

 vide S. F., Vol. VIII. Nevertheless, I cannot conclude without 

 acknowledging my indebtedness to Mr. Hume, without whose 

 aid in the indentification line — the Lucknow Museum being 

 lamentably deficient in birds could afford me little or none — 

 I am sure I should not have got on at all. I only wish that 

 m y paper had been more complete, that I had been able, for 

 instance, to give more measurements of individual species, 

 iucluding their native names, than I have given ; but, " errors 

 and omissions excepted," I feel I have done fairly well con- 

 sidering how little of my time is my own, and that, unlike 

 more favored individuals, I hold no " roving commission" from 

 Her Majesty to ramble about during the cold months of the 



year. 



(To be continued.) 



