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bluck partridg-e, stone cliats, Picus scindewmis, Btidytes citreola, 

 and citreoloides, and Agrodroma, cartvpestris. At the Mung-ranee 

 Bung-alow, I saw Yunx torquilla in the high grass. In its imme- 

 diate neighbourhood, numbers of both Vloceus manyar aud P. 

 beagcdensis, and Laficilla Bwnesi ; the latter to-day, I am bound 

 to say, gave me more the idea of babblers. I also shot one 

 Tephrodornis pondiceriana. A bird that I did not recognize, 

 struck down a heron in splendid style, some three hundred yards 

 off us, in high jungle, but though I tried hard I could not find 

 either the hawk or its prey, as the cover was too dense for camels 

 to make any way through it, and on foot it was impossible to 

 see a yard before one. 



%nd. — Dr. Day killed a fine peregrine close to the station and 

 a couple of P. scindeanus, and one of my shikarees whom I had 

 left behind at Mungranee to get some more Laticilla Buruesi, 

 returned with eight of them. 



2)rd. — To Gaheja, 14 miles on the road to. Larkhana. We saw 

 nothing but Br achy pier nus dilutiis, near the station, Laiiius 

 isubelliuus and a Pipit (A. spinoletta,) several vultures of 

 which we did not shoot any, and heaps of C. caudata. Here 

 and there, there was cultivation, but for the most part the 

 country we traversed was sandy and barren-looking, thickly 

 studded with large caper bushes. 



Mh. — To Kuttadera, about 14 miles. The country compara- 

 tively well cultivated in patches, but a great deal of it waste land, 

 covered with caper bushes. The only noticeable bird I saw was 

 a huge eagle, nearly black, with the head lighter, but with no 

 white shoulder spots and larger than any imperial eagle I have 

 ever seen ; I examined it carefully with a glass at about 70 yards 

 distance, but could get no nearer, and with my small gun could 

 do nothing. Numbers of C. caudata, saxicola's, of sorts and B. 

 gracilis, but nothing else. 



hth. — To Larkhana, 19 miles, halting for breakfast at Ma- 

 homed Bukar-ki-Gharee, Saw another of these eagles, possibly 

 chrysaetos, a young one in the purplish golden plumage, with 

 the white bar on the tail. It kept flying or rather circling 

 slowly round and round over our heads at the height of about 

 GO or 70 yards for full ten minutes, but there was no getting a 

 shot. I saw Saxicola Kingi, S. delicatula, T. pondiceriaua, 

 P. perigrinus, and numbers of the cattle heron in a marshy 

 spot. The small egret in another place; Lobioanellus goeu- 

 sis and T. ochrophus everywhere common in these parts 

 near any water. We saw a huge flock of Plocetis manyar and 

 bengalensis, and dropped nine at a shot. All proved to be males. 

 It is curious that when we shot seven or eight out of a flock at 



