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PtEKOCLES LlCHTENSTEINII, Tem. 



„ Senegalltjs. Linn. fF. GiMatus. LicJit.) 



„ CoEONATUS. Lnm. 



Ltmosa E/UFA. Briss. (L. Lcq^ponica. Linn.) 

 Tkinga Ckassirosteis. Sclilegel. (S. Magnus. Gould.)' 

 PouzANA MiNUTA. Pallas. (P. Ptisilliis. Gmelin.) 

 UuERQUEDULA Angustikostris. Meiietries. (Marmoraia. Tem.) 

 PoDiCEPS NiGEicoLLis. Suiidevall. 



Stercoraeius Parasiticus. Linn. (Ricliardsoni. Audubon.) 

 Laeus Occidentalis. Audubon. (L. Borealis. Brandt.) 

 „ Lambeuschini. Bon. (L. Temdrostris. Tem.) 

 „ Hemprichii. Bon. (L. Crassirostris. Licht.) 

 and Thalasseus Cantiacus. Gmelin. (Acujlavlda. Cahot.) 

 are entirely new to our Avifauna. Besides tliese^ many other 

 species^ not included in the late Dr. Jerdon^s great work on the 

 Birds of India, but subsequently recorded by myself or others 

 as occurring- within our limits, such as Halijetus Albicilla, 

 Lin; Saxicola Kingi, nobis j Lusciniola Melanopogon, Tem 

 Phylloscopus Neglectus_, nobis j Sylvia Delicatula, Hartlaub 

 Melizophilus Steiatus, Brookes ; Anthus Spinoletta, Lin 

 Alaudula Adamsi, nobis ; Pyeehulauda Afeinis, Blyth ; Laeus 

 Aegentatus, Briinnich j and Pelec anus Ceispus, Bruch, reward- 

 ed our labours, to say nothing of species hitherto rare in India, 

 Cypselus Aptts, Linn.; Laticilla Buniesi, Blytli ; Alcemon Besertontm, 

 Stanley, Calidris Arenaria, Linn ; Phalarojms Fulicarius, Linn ; 

 Anser ErytJirojms, Linn., nee Gmelin; 2(,n(i Phaeton JEtherius, Linn, 

 If to the names thus enumerated I add that at one season Merops 

 Mgyptius, Forshal jim., swarms throughoitt the country, that 

 Lanius Isabellinus, H. and F., (with the white wing bar) and 

 L. Arenariios, Blyth, (which are both stages of the same species, as 

 I shall show hereafter) are the predominant shrikes of Sindh ; 

 that Saxicola Beserti, Rilpp, (with which S. Atrogularis, Blyth, 

 is identical) and S. Isabellina, Biipp, are the wheatears ; Ammomanes 

 Lusitania, Gm., and Galerida Cristata, Linn, together with A. 

 Besertonom, Stanley, the larks ; Cursorius Gallicios, Gm., the only 

 courser, and Beviiegretta Gularis, Bosc, the sea-side heron, the 

 strongly marked European and North-East African cum Arabian 

 character of the Sindh Avifauna, cannot fail to strike every 

 ornithologist. 



As a matter of fact, the more habitable portion of Sindh is a 

 mere oasis in the desert, a long and comparatively narrow tract 

 of country, yearly fertilized by the inundation of the Indus, set in 

 a broad frame of shifting sand-heaps or bare stony moimtains. 



Eastward Sindh is bounded by some of the most desert por- 

 tions of Bhawulpoor, Jeysulmere, and Balmere, (a dependency 



