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877. — Numenius lineatus, Cuv. 



This is another species plentiful at the end, pretty commou 

 at the beginning', but rare during the middle of the cold weather. 

 During March and the early part of April considerable numbers 

 are usually brought in. 



878. — Numenius pheeopus, Lin. 



Eare ; two or three at most during the whole season. Some 

 years none. 



880. — Machetes pugnax, Lin. 



Rather common, a few daily ; large numbers at the commence- 

 ment and close of the season. 



882 — 885. — Tringa subarquata, alpina, minuta, ruficollis (da- 

 macensis) and temmincki. 



All these are pretty common — minuta and ruficollis come 

 in about equal numbers. Subarquata is here much more 

 common than alpina, whereas up-country, except at the 

 season of migration, it is almost exclusively alpina that occurs. 



886. — Limicola platyrhyncha, Tern. 



Rare. I have only met with this species perhaps six times in 

 as many seasons during which I have attended the market. 



887. — Eurynorhynchus pygmaus, Lin. 



Once only have I known of this species occurring". 



889.— Phalaropus fulicarius, Lin. 



Blyth obtained one specimen in icinter dress on the 11th 

 May 1846 in this market. I know of no other instance of its 

 occurrence within our limits. 



I wish to remark here that I formerly certainly made a mis- 

 take about this species. Happening to obtain a single specimen 

 in the open sea between G-wader and Muscat, and seeing num- 

 bers apparently identical, and being told that they were always 

 seen in numbers in those parts, I said, S. F., I, 245 :— 



" It is, however, as I ascertained, a regular and well-known 

 visitor to the seas that wash the Sindh and Mekran Coasts, and 

 I myself again observed it in the open sea between Kurrachee 

 and Bombay." 



Subsequent experience leads me now to believe that all or 

 most of the flocks I saw, and the birds that my informants refer- 

 red to, were Lobipes hyperboreus and not the present species. At 

 least twenty specimens have been shot and sent to me by dif- 

 ferent persons from these localities; all have, without exception, 

 belonged to hyperboreus, and no other specimen offulicarius has 

 been obtained. 



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