Cmitrllnttimts to tlje i:i:«itljcil0$| oi |nMa. Sindh, No. IL 



In the previous number I gave a very brief resume of the 

 ornithological results of my trip to Sindh;, and an equally brief 

 sketch of the more prominent physical features of the province. 



I omitted to notice that^, although I failed to secure specimens, 

 I ascertained the occurrence^ as occasional and probably seasonal 

 visitants to the hills dividing Sindh from Khelat^ of a jay, pre- 

 sumably^, from the description I received, G. melanocephalus. 

 Gene, and of a huge black wood-pecker, with a crimson head, 

 which can scarcely be other than JDryocopus martius, Linn. 



To these, I have now to add Oriolus galbula, Linn., of which 

 an undoubted specimen (wing all but 6 inches long, small bill, 

 not a trace of black behind the eye) has been sent me from 

 Sindh, since our last number appeared, by Mr, James, c. s. 



I have no doubt that the further investigation of the Avi- 

 fauna of this province (which I have set on foot and which my 

 present crude and imperfect notes are mainly intended to facili- 

 tate) will result in the identification of numerous other western 

 forms and confirm my view that, ornithologically at any rate, 

 Sindh is more closely allied with Asia Minor, North- Western 

 Arabia, and North-Eastern Africa, than with any other province 

 of India, it having, as my friend Dr. Stoliczka^s recent valuable 

 paper sufficiently shows, but little in common even with Cutch. 



I now propose in view to showing more clearly when, how, and 

 under what circumstances the various species I shall have later 

 to enumerate, were met with, to reproduce my rough diary of 

 our jaunt which, though necessarily without the slightest j)re- 

 tensions to literary merit, will, I hope, possess a certain interest 

 alike for naturalists and sportsmen. 



The accompanying sketch map, for which I am indebted to the 

 kindness of Colonel Thuillier, c.s.i., in which the tracts explored 

 are colored pink, will show clearly what portions of the country 

 covered in our tour were worked, as also, alas ! how much I was 

 compelled to leave untouched. As a rule we had three guns out 

 daily, at times six, divided into parties some miles apart ; and 

 on two occasions. Dr. Day, the Inspector General of Fisheries, 

 while inspecting fisheries and investigating the piscifauna of 

 localities which I never managed to reach, collected vigorously 

 for me, recording dates, sexes, and such likes particulars, as only 

 a naturalist, himself in former days an ornithologist, could or 

 would have done. 



