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have seen the tails were, if I remember rig-litly, treble this length' 

 Moreover, the hallux and its web and the basal joints (with their 

 webs) of the toes instead of being red, are white, faintly tinged 

 with fleshy blue, and creamy yellow in different places. 



ZSt/i. — Kurrachee. Just as we entered the harbour, we again 

 saw my old enemies the phaleropes, and a skua, an adult, with 

 long pointed tail, and as far as I could judge cevtamiy parasiticus. 



There must be an end to every thing,'^ and my pleasant holi- 

 day was drawing to its close. I had only a couple of days more 

 in Kurrachee ; there were specimens innumerable to be packed, 

 kind friends to whom we had owed so much, to say farewell to, 

 and we steamed out of the harbour again en route to Bombay, 

 without firing another shot or securing a single other bird. 



Even on the way to Bombay, however, those betes noires of 

 my expedition (of each of which I only secured a single specimen,) 

 the phaleropes, the skuas, and shearwaters, commissioned, I feel 

 sure, individual- members of their communities to see me safely 

 out of their domains. Anyhow, we saw a little party of the first, 

 and one or two of each of the latter on our way to Bombay. 



I now proceed to enumerate all the species, which I have as 

 yet ascertained, to occur in Sindh. Of all species not included in 

 '' Dr. Jerdon^s birds of India," I give full measurements and des- 

 criptions. My list includes somewhat less than three hundred 

 species, but I hope within a year to see this largely supplemented 

 by the researches of local observers. 



3 Us. Gyps fulvescens.— Sm7?z6. Scr. Bh. p. 19 



? G. Fulvus, Gm. 



This was the only species of vulture that I actually shot and 

 identified ; but other species doubtless occur. Vultures however 

 are very rare in Sindh compared to what they are jn Upper 

 India. 



Ornithologists at home, now generally admit the validity of 

 G. liimalayensis, nobis, the Hoc, as I have called it. Mr. Gurney 

 did so long ago ; and by last mail I had a letter from Mr. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, Mr. Gray's successor at the British Museum, 

 expressing his surprise that so excellent a species should so long 

 have escaped notice, more especially smce the British Museum 

 contains a fine series of it, but neither Mr. Gurney nor Mr. 

 Sharpe as yet believe in fulvescens. 



The following are Mr. Gurney's remarks (in Ejjist.) on this 

 species : 



* Exclamation of unhappy but patient reader, " tliank heaven \" 



