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2btk. — Marched 16 miles to Pande-jee-waliya, near the mouth 

 of the Narree Nai. Saw nothing en route except numerous larg-e 

 flocks of pig-eons going down from the hills to the plain land to 

 feed^ and the usual A. htsitania and G. cristata. Stonechats and 

 wheatears, %cq., but we picked up sixteen B. githaginews , killing 

 them in the same kind of fields as those in which I obtained the 

 first specimens. 



WtJi. — Marched 17 miles up the Nurree Nai^, through numerous 

 low ranges^ none rising I suppose above six or seven hundred feet 

 above the plains^ to the foot of the main range^ here perhaps about 

 4,000 feet high. Everywhere along the bed of the streamlet, 

 (which here and there expands into tiny, clear, deep green 

 tarns densely fringed with bull rushes) and about the numerous 

 small wheat fields, which occupy every little culturable flat in the 

 stream''s tortuous valley, Ftionojjrogne j^f^ttida abounded. Here 

 and there on the bare rocks, Vetrocossy pirns cyamis was met with, 

 while about the pools a single ZT. smyrnensls, C. rxulis, a com- 

 mon heron, three Alceclo ispida, and several Vlotiis melanogaster 

 were seen. I shot a solitary female Aytliyaferina, and saw four 

 teal. Two eyrie& and two pairs of Bonelli^s eagle were seen (I 

 shot one of the latter.) S. Kingi and A. lusitania very abundant, a 

 few large black and white saxicolas and one monacha. Here, as 

 elsewhere, the outside ranges are conglomerates of water- worn 

 boulders, of numulitic limestone and sandstone, with here and there 

 scoria and lava, the next ranges are sandstones more or less friable, 

 but inclosing, wide bands of very hard and compact sandstone, 

 and yellow and reddish marls, while the main range appears to be 

 numulitic limestone, underlaid by triassic rocks. 



27^/i. — Back to Pande-jee-wahya, the pale crag swallow, as 

 numerous as yesterday. No new birds except a fine dark buz- 

 zard, B. ferox. Just at the mouth of the Nai, a lammergeyer, 

 and a female C. Swainsoni, and just outside the mouth, I shot a 

 fine imperialis in the uniform dark stage. Near the mouth where 

 there is a little water and some fields, I got two pairs of B. 

 githagineus. The large black and white wheatears hereabouts 

 strike one as- singularly pure in colour, they should be compared 

 with picata. 



28^/^. — Ten miles to the south-west corner of the Munchur lake 

 at Shah Hussein, which overlooks part of the lake. Walking 

 along the shores, saw several Recurvirostra avocetfa, fiamingoes, 

 L. agoceplmla, Tadornas vulpanser, Anastomus oscitans, Mareca 

 penelope, and on the water, mallard, Aytliyaferina, and nyroca-, 

 Faligida cristata, L. ictliymtus, and all the other water birds 

 noticed elsewhere, S. caspius being particularly numerous. I find 

 that the black and white wheatear of the hills is a much larger 



