Notes. 421 



940.— Cursorius coromandelicus, Gmei. 



" Is not uncommon in my neighbourhood : it is usually foundi 

 in pairs ; but sometimes occurs in flocks of ten^ or twenty. 

 They afliect waste ground adjoining cultivation^ and: stay with 

 usj I believe^ all the year round." 



891. — Totanus glareola, Lin- 



" I have only seen this species in the cold weather^. It is not 

 common." 



953— Dendrocygna major, Jerdon. 



"Never noticed this species before last season^ when I saw 

 them on several occasions in large parties on " Dhunds." I am 

 told by an ornithologist that they are regularly found every 

 year, during the rainy season^, on the eastern Narra, a stream 

 whicli rises at Sukker on the left bank of the Indus, and after 

 passing' through Khyrpoor, (Meer Ali Moorad^s Territory) and 

 the Thur District, loses itself in the run of Kutch. The lands 

 on each side of this are rather widely flooded every year, and are 

 a perfect paradise for water-fowl.". 



Most unfortunately for the interests of ornithology, Mr. Jaimes 

 has left Sindh, having joined the Bombay Secretariat, and I 

 can only now hope that some other of the ornithologists of Sindh 

 will take up the work he had begun and aid us to complete our 

 knowledge of the Avifauna of the province.. 



Avifauna of the Islands of. the Bay of Bengal. 



My friend, Mr. Davison, having spent the whole cold season,, 

 and I myself having spent a month in and amongst the Anda- 

 mans, Nieobars, and other islands of the Bay of Bengal, (some 

 of them like Batty Malve and Narcondam, never previously 

 visited by Europeans,) we propose in the next number to furnish 

 a complete resume of the Avifauna of these islands. In the- 

 mean time it may be noted, that to the birds included in Mr. 

 BalFslist (mVfeante, p. 51, et. seq.j) and in my " additional notes"' 

 (p. 304) must be added not only the new species above des- 

 cribed 



Arachnechthra andamanica ... vide p. 404 



Ephialtes Balli ... ... „ 407 



dlssemuroides dicrueiformis ... „ 408 



LoCUSTELLA SUBSIGNATA ... „ 409 



k.hyticer0s narcondami ... „ 411 



JjIthopyga nicobarica ... „ 412 



