178 MY LAST NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF SIND. 



as they began to lay, and about ten days later they sent U3 

 in about a dozen eggs. 



944ter.— Cygnus olor, Gm. 



Mr. Watson, Deputy Collector of Sehwan, shot three Mute 

 Swans last year in a marsh adjoining the Munchar Lake. There 

 were two others with them at the time, but he allowed them to 

 escape, considering that there were as many as his taxidermist 

 could manage at one time. (See further, ante, pp. 99 — 108.) 



976.— Oceanites oceanica, Banks, 



This Petrel, which I obtained along the Mekran coast last 

 year, S. F., Vol. V., 291., may now be included in the Sind 

 list, as Captain Bishop, who was with meat the time the speci- 

 men was shot, and who knows the bird well, informs me that he 

 noticed several lately, in a recent trip along the coast, between 

 Karachi and the mouths of the Indus. 



992.— Sterna anaetheta, Scop. 



The Panayan Tern may also be included in the list of Sind 

 birds, as Captain Stiffe and Captain Bishop, H. M. S. " Amber- 

 witch/' both assured me positively that they saw several along 

 the coast between Karachi and Bombay last year, and that many 

 of them were caught at roost on board by the sailors. 



1006.— Phalacrocorax fuscicollis, Stephens. 



Under this number I am inclined to think that Jerdon has mix- 

 ed up two species, as he gives the length as varyiug from 24 to 29 

 inches, and from recent observations made in the E. Narra 

 I am disposed to think that there are two intermediate species. 

 The present species, a good specimen of which I forwarded 

 to Mr. Hume, is the same as the bird I got in Guzerat (Vol. 

 IV., 33,) and measures from 24 to 25 inches, with an expanse of 

 about 40 inches. This bird is common in the E. Narra 

 and in other parts of Lower Sind, &c, we found it breeding 

 in colonies with Plotus melanog aster and Phalacrocorax me- 

 lanognatlms at the end of July. In the same dhuud, however, 

 another bird, with a very conspicuous white cheek patch, 

 was also breeding — a bird, so far as we could judge, about half 

 way in size between the present species and P. carbo. Un- 

 fortunately we only managed to shoot one specimen, and 

 that, being only winged, escaped ; but we shall doubtless 

 procure others later as the fishermen recognize the four 

 species and have promised to send us skins of the one we 

 want. The natives talk of them as the large and small Big. 

 Cormorant, and the large and small Little Cormorant, and one 



