SOME NOTES ON SINDH BIRDS. 503 



Section 1. 

 Birds new* to the Sindh List. 



38.— Circaetus gallicus, Gmel. 



Shot a specimen of this Eagle on 10th November 1878, near 

 Mahomed Khan's Tanda. Dimensions as follow : — 



Female. — Length, 27'5 ; expanse, 72 ; tail, 12*5 • wing, 21*5 ; 

 bill at front, 1*5 • bill from gape, 2*5. 



Noticed it pretty often all aloug the road from the above 

 place to the Eastern Narra Districts, where it is tolerably com- 

 mon. 



52.— Circus cineraceus, Mont. 



Shot a young female on 17th November, and a young male on 

 18th ; the former was shot so badly I could not skin it. 



Comparing the skin of the male with the diagnosis o-iven in 

 the 1st Vol. S.F., page 418, there is no doubt about the identi- 

 fication of this bird as the quills are only emarginated on outer 

 webs of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th pi-imaries, and the bulo-e on 

 the 2nd primary is fully an inch below the line of wino-- 

 coverts. 



67.— Otus vulgaris, Flem. 



Shot a very fine female on the 23rd of December 1878. 



Length, 14'32 • expanse, 375 ; tail, 65 ; wing, 12 ; bill at 

 front, 1*12 j bill from gape, 1'25. 



Irides bright yellow ; claws dark horny • bill the same. 



[Here I should insert a letter previously received from Cap- 

 tain Butler from Hyderabad. He says : — 



" Great luck, this morning, (19th December 1878) I bag- 

 ged a beautiful pair (male and female) of Otus vulgaris. I 

 was sitting on a bridge crossing a nullah, overgrown with thick 

 babool trees, in the early morning waiting for Doig, when 

 suddenly I heard about fifty Babblers chattering away in such 

 an unusual manner that I knew at once they were mobbino- 

 something, and on proceeding to the spot I found a lovely pair 

 of Otus vulgaris sitting in the middle of a low babool tree on 

 the outside of the clump. Two shots quickly secured them 

 both, and beauties they are. 



Measurements as follows :— • 



Female. — Length, 13*75 ; wing, 11*25; tail, 575; bill at 

 front, 1*06 ; bill from gape, 1"12 ; expanse, 35*75. 



* I have taken this opportunity to record four other species new to our lists. This 

 makes eight in all, and raises the total number for the province to 379, of which only 

 nine— Nos. 26, 1686i's, 2596i's, ISOter, idHer, TZQ^uat, Iblier, Mbbis, 9856is— seem 

 doubtful.— Ed. S. E. 



