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Legs and feet^ pale dingy wax yellow, in some greenish, in 

 some dusky yellow ; claws, pale bvown ; the irides vary a good 

 deal : they are generally either bright yellow, orange, or orange 

 brown ; but in some specimens, they were dull red, and in some a 

 bright brown ; the bill is generally orange, somewhat dusk}^ on 

 the culmen j in some, however, it is a brownish orange red, and in 

 the females especially often brov/n above and orange below, or 

 even yellowish brown ; the cere is generally a hoary orange red, 

 sometimes only brown. 



822.— Ortygornis ponticeriana, Gmel. 



Pretty common in the neighbourhood of cultivation through- 

 out Sindh. 



829.— Cotumix commnnis, Bonn. 



I met with this constantly in Sindh, but never far from cul» 

 tivation. I nowhere put up more than a couple or two in any one 

 place, but in certain seasons of the year I am told that they are 

 very plentiful. 



830.— Coturnix coromandelica, Gmel. 



I myself never saw this bird alive iu Sindh, but it is very com- 

 mon during the monsoon and I saw specimens that had been pro- 

 cured during the previous rains and others have since been sent 

 to me. 



835.— Turnix Dussumieri, Tem. 



Shot at Jacobabad by Capt. Maiden. We failed to secure any 

 specimen in Sindh. 



836.— Otis Edwardsi, Gray. 



One specimen was shot some years ago near Kurrachee, and 

 it is not very uncommon, I hear, in the Thurr and Pakur districts, 

 east of the Indus. 



837.— Hoiibara Macqueeni, Gray. 



The Houbara thoug-h scarce in Sindh compared with what 

 it is in the North-Western Punjab, is very often met with in those 

 barren plains which I have already described [c.f. supra sylvia 

 delicatula, ^'c.) where the Lana and Bouee afford it shelter. I never 

 myself saw above a couple of pairs in any one day, and never 

 took the trouble to go after it ; but as an idea was prevalent 

 among sportsmen that it was different from the Punjab Houbara, 

 I examined a couple of specimens that one of them had by him, 

 and found that they were identical with the Punjab birds. Mr. 

 jGlray makes or accepts two species of this genus, or sub-genus ; the 



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