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rant^ sometimes (in fact, in fair weather, generally,) out at sea in 

 the day, and usually about the harbour from 6 p. m. to 8 a. m. I 

 have seen no more Lanos Kemp-icldi, though I have hunted for 

 them far and wide. 



^th. — Again in the harbour. Found Terehia cinerea very 

 common. Got several Tringa platyrliyndm and Oyster-catchers 

 and more of Limosa rufa, and the large Tringa which I don't 

 know ; T. cantiacus, and hengalensis in hundreds. Only got 

 one Calidris arenaria, I shot one specimen of Thalasseus crista- 

 tus, the only one I have yet seen here. Grey curlews numerous, 

 reef white and common Herons, ditto. Gelochelidon niioti' 

 cus not uncommon, 8. Casjmts common. In the evening went 

 on board the Amberwitch to go 60 miles up the coast to Soo- 

 meeanee Bay. 



\^tli. — At the Bay, saw millions of flamingoes and cormo- 

 rants ; several Calidris arenaria, and two Terehia cinerea were 

 shot, also a single Lanis Hemprichii, (we saw several others but 

 failed to obtain them) and one huge specimen of horealis: 

 S. caspius, T. cantiacus, and hengalensis, Pelicanus crispus, several 

 Jj. ichthyatus, but none obtained, and we saw myriads of the 

 gulls which I take to be Lamhruschini and horealis. The novelty 

 was a medium sized grebe, P. nigricollis, of Europe, I think, 

 of which we killed five, and of which many are to be met with 

 close to Kurrachee at the Ghiseree creek, and again at the 

 mouths of the Indus, 



11^^. — Sunday. \2,th. — About the harbour all day. Found 

 a few Tringa suharquata, amongst the dunlins. Killed several 

 turnstones, sanderlings, and Terehia cinerea, bar-tailed godwits, 

 grey plover, and one L. HempricJiii. These latter never appear 

 to come here in more than parties of three and four, though further 

 up the Gulf, they seem to be more numerous. Ospreys are com- 

 mon about the coast, and I note here that in Soomeeanee Bay, I 

 saw an enormous eagle, the largest I ever saw, bigger apparently 

 than any golden eagle. 



\^th. — Outside the harbour nearly all day — dealt with bad 

 luck — saw all kinds of things, and got nothing. First there 

 was a party of snippets, swimming in the open sea, which 

 though I have never seen the birds alive, I conclude must be 

 Phaleropes. What the deuce else can they be ? regular stints, 

 but swimming away, miles out at sea, and a stiffish sea on too, 

 as folly as if they were Scotters. I wasted two hours over the 

 little wretches. I was in Capt. Giles's gig, the best boat and crew 

 in the harbour, but there was just as much sea on as we were up 

 to ; it was bad pulling, and as soon as we got within TOO yards, 

 up sprung the flock, scudded away over the surface of the 



