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(such as they are) appear reflected^, and men, cattle, and camels 

 moviiig- in the distance appear to he wading. In the afternoon 

 went on the larg-e dund, which heg-ins about two miles east of 

 this. For fulh^ half the distance between the camp and the broad 

 (as we should call it in Norfolk) the level waste is transformed 

 \iy irrigation into a sea of young wheat, stretching, apparently, 

 for miles noith and south. On the dund I shot Larus ridibundus 

 and L. bruneicephahis , at least so I identified them. I saw also 

 Seena atirantia, 8. caspius, G. niloticus, and L. argentatus, my- 

 riads of coots, and heaps of ducks, including numerous angusti- 

 I'ostris. 



I'^th. — On the dund again ; saw flamingoes, spoonbills, white 

 herons, of sizes, in myriads, S. caspitis, and Hydrochelidon indica, 

 purple coots, fuid pelicans. Of these I dropped seven with a right 

 and left, but only brought five to book, the other two having 

 swam away out of sight. 



19^!/^. — On the morning worked the plain between us and the 

 hills and brought in seven sand grouse, P. senegallus, three males 

 and four females. These birds closely resemble P. coi-onattis, of 

 which I got one specimen from Loch at Jacobabad, but the eye- 

 brows are less blue, the crown wants the vinous fawn tinge, 

 there are none of the three black streaks, and the upper plumage 

 also differs somewhat. Later I again visited the dund, where I 

 secured the remaining two of the seven pelicans, I knocked down 

 yesterday. Of the five stuffed yesterday and this morning, four 

 were rosy adults; crest moderate; total length, from 56 to 6 finches, 

 what Jerdon would call Javanicus ; all females. The other consider- 

 ably larger, quite a young bird, brown and white, was a male. 

 The two got to-day were one very rosy, length 60, with a long 

 crest, (what Jerdon would call mitratus^ sex female ; the other 

 much less rosy, no crest, 72 inches long, with a huge bill (what 

 he would call onocrotaius ,) sex male. Now the bills of all are 

 precisely similarly coloured, and no one looking at them fresh could 

 doubt that all these bii'ds belong to one and the same species. 



I shot a Gelochelidon niloticus and several gulls, L. argentatus. 

 In a reed bush where I lay waiting for some time, Acroceplialus 

 brunescens was very abundant, running up and down the reeds, 

 and picking insects rapidly off the stems. The note is harsh. 

 With these were numbers of P. tristis, which equally busy in 

 picking insects off the leaves, every now and then flew up into 

 the small clouds of midges that floated above the reeds and hung 

 hovering in them, snapping right and left, with the utmost rapi- 

 dity. Many more of the yellow-throated sand grouse, P. senegallus, 

 brought in. 



Dr. Day who went to near Duryalo, from Guibee Dera, return- 



