STRAY FEATHERS. 



Vol.1.] NOVEMBER, 1872. [No. 1. 



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In placing- on record, now and hereafter^ supposed new species, 

 it must be clearly understood that I do not dogmatically assert 

 that they are all positively new. 



They are not to be found in Jerdon_, nor are they among-st the 

 400 odd species omitted by him, but ascertained now to occur 

 within our limits. 



Nor have I been able to identify them with any known species 

 of which I have plates or descriptions. 



With only my own private library and museum however to 

 consult, I am naturally peculiarly liable to error, and shall be 

 grateful to all who will correct my inevitable mistakes. 



The birds having occurred within our limits, it is of great 

 importance to make sure whetlier they are new or not, and if 

 not, to ascertain what name they should rightly bear; and no 

 more ready means of attaining this object suggests itself to me 

 than that of publishing descriptions such as follow: 



itiOtt0p0P^ fallik, S]). Nov. 



Similar to P. Rupestris Scop., hut much paler and very considerably 

 smaller. Wing, 4*4 to 4"75 inches.. 



I FOUND this new species very common along the course of the 

 Gaj, the Nurrinai, and other small streams that issue from 

 the bare stony hills that divide Sindh from Kelat. I found it 

 ag*ain along with Cypseltts Apus, or C. BarbaMs, Tristram 

 and Temminck, if this species, which I doubt, be really distinct, 

 off the rocky headland of Minora, at the mouth of the Kurra- 

 chee Harbour, and in similar localities along the Mekran Coast. 

 The flight is rapid, and the birds are somewhat difficult, as some 

 of our party found, to bring to bag. I think I heard of a whole 

 flask of shot being fired away without any tangible results. 



