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grape, 2-25; at front, 1-90; closed wings fall short of end of 

 tail, 10. Bill black; tip reddish; legs salmon red; joints 

 dusky. 



Secured this bird from a flock that was flying round a jheel, 

 having been disturbed by my previous shot, and as it was dark, 

 I could not make out whether the others, which flew away, 

 were of this species. 



975.— Podiceps minor, Gmel. 



Male. — Length, 8*10 to 9*; expanse, 16*75 to 17*0; wino* 

 3-75 to 4*0 ; tarsus, 1*25 ; bill from gape, 1*16 to 1*18 ; at front, 

 O80 to 0-83 ; weight, 5*5 ozs. 



Female. — Length, 8*20; expanse, 16 "25 ; wing, 3*83; tarsus, 

 1-25 ; bill from gape, 1*12 ; at front, 0*77 ; weight, 5*87 ozs. 



A few hairs projecting from the os-coccygis do duty for a 

 tail ; irides red brown in adults, reddish yellow in the youno- ; 

 bill blackish, conspicuously white tipped ; gape sulphur yellow. 

 Immature birds have the culmen black ; the rest of the bill lio-ht 

 orange ; legs greenish ochre ; soles black. The birds killed in June 

 had the sulphur yellow spot, which very likely is only seasonal. 

 Jerdon does not seem to have noticed this spot. During the cold 

 weather these birds are not to be seen, but from April they were 

 plentiful in all the large " beels." None of those dissected by me 

 showed signs of breeding. 



980— *Larus brunneicephalus, Jerd. 



Common in all the large rivers during the cold weather. I 

 have also shot it in the Cbapadahoo Beel, which is a sheet of 

 water about a mile in length and quarter of a mile in breadth, 

 and only 3 miles inland from the Muddoomuttee river. 



983.— *Gelochelidon anglica, Mont 



Excessively common in all the rivers, creeks and beels ; but 

 whether it is a permanent resident or not 1 cannot say, not 

 having paid attention to it. 



984.— Hydrochelidon hybrida, Pall. 



28th March 1878, Female.— Length, 10*33 ; expanse, 25*42 ; 

 wing, 8*54 ; tail from vent, 3*37 ; tarsus, 0*83 ; bill from gape^ 

 1*50; at front, 1*0; closed wings exceed end of tail, 2*0; 

 weight, 2*62 ozs. Bill and legs red, with a blackish tinge. 



Common along all the rivers and creeks, also any large marsh • 

 only seen during the cold weather. 



