108 FURTHER ADDITIONS TO THE SINDH AVIFAUNA, 



la both these species the plumage of the adult is pure white.; 

 that of the head and neck being often tinged with reddish yellow. 

 In both, the young birds have the plumage pale bluish grey ; 

 the bill dusky at the tip, and livid fleshy or reddish towards the 

 base, and on the partially bare skin in front of the eye ; and 

 the feet reddish grey. 



Much more might be said as to minor differences existing 

 between these three species, but my object is merely to enable 

 observers in India to discriminate them, and not to write a 

 monographic notice of them. 



A, O. H. 



trityer HbMttoits to tfre Sinbft girifiutim. 



By J. A. Murray. 



Having made a collecting trip a little beyond Sehwan, I pro- 

 pose to give a few particulars of the result, showing some 

 additions to the Avifauna of Siudh as recorded in the Editor's 

 lists, Vol. I.j p. 148, and Vol. V., p. 328, of Stray Feathers. 



We were a party of three, and left Kurrachee by the evening 

 train of the 15th November last, arriving at Jempeer, a station 

 on the line, at about 2 a.m. on the following morning. Here 

 we were delayed till 4 a.m., owing to our camels not being in 

 readiness, which completely upset our plans for going some 

 seventeen miles north of the station across a range of hills. 

 This it was impossible to do owing to the late start, and as day 

 broke we got to the first piece of ground covered with vege- 

 tation other than the JHuphorbia, and this was chiefly composed 

 of Greivia asiatica, Capparis aphylla and Leptadenia jacque- 

 montiana, with here and there interspersed some tall Acacia trees 

 on which were seated small companies of the large Tawny Vulture 

 Gyps fulvescens, and the White-backed species G. bengalensis. 



Partridges and Quails were numerous and were heard for 

 miles, and Hares in plenty were seen skedadling from bush to 

 bush. Of the Laniidce there were L. vitiatus, erythronotus and 

 lathora busily occupied making their morning repast, while 

 the King Crows, {Buchanga atra,) were flitting from bush to 

 bush making a not unpleasant cry ; this with the Larks, 

 Galerida cristata and Callendrella brachydactyla, whose songs 

 filled the morning air, were the first observed; Lanius arenarius 

 and Malacocircus terricolor being later on observable as busy as 

 the others, after a night's fast. 



