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Pigeon. It passed me twice in the open within 60 yards with 

 the sun shining- full on it, and subsequently I examined it 

 carefully with my glasses whilst it sat on the top of a stunted 

 tamarisk tree. There is no other genus that it could possibly 

 have belonged to. It was of the same size as P. torquatus, had 

 the same white wing bands, and after settling raised its tail up and 

 down in the same way exactly as the English bird, of which I 

 have shot hundreds, and which I need hardly say I could scarcely 

 confound with any species of any other genus. I may add 

 that there is a specimen of Palumbus torquatus"^ in the Frere 

 Hall Museum, Karachi, which I examined last year. It was 

 labelled Columba livia, but I pointed the mistake out to Mr. 

 Murray, the Curator, who informed me that it was procured in 

 Sindh (!). I expressed my doubts on the subject at the time, as 

 the bird was not then recorded from that province, and was 

 mounted on a board in exactly the same way as a pair of Grouse 

 and some other English birds in the Museum that had evidently 

 been sent from England. However, now that I have seen a 

 bird of the same, or some very closely allied species myself in 

 Sindh in a wild state, it is just possible that Mr. Murray may 

 have been correct, and that the bird referred to was really 

 (though I still doubt the fact) obtained in Sindh. 



[842.— Glareola orientalis, Leach. 



Observed and found breeding, 1 understand, by Mr. Doig in 

 company with G. pratincola, in the Eastern Narra districts.] 



920.— Dissura episcopa, :Bodd. 



A White-necked Stork was shot near Sukkur by a soldier, 83rd 

 Regiment, in January 1879, which I examined and identified. 

 I have heard of no other instance of its occurrence in Sindh as 

 yet, and it must therefore be a rara avis in these parts. 



950.— Sarkidiornis melanonotus, Penn. 



A friend of mine wrote to me a few days ago saying that he 

 had shot a Goose on the 18th January this year (1879), cor- 

 responding exactly with Jerdon's description of S. melanonotus, 

 at a place called Badin, about 63 miles south-east of Hyderabad 

 (just inside the eastern limits of Sindh in fact), and that none 

 of his party, all of whom were Sindh men who know and shoot 

 in those districts regularly, had ever seen the bird before. 

 I wrote to him for further particulars, and have no doubt from 

 his reply that the bird was a " Nuktah." It was solitary at 

 the time, and probably only occurs as a straggler even in these 



* Is Capt. Butler sure that this also is not casiotis ? The two differ mainly in the 

 colour of the neck patches, white in torquatus, buffy in casiotis. If really torqitatus, 

 I believe we may safely say it did not come from Sindh. — Ed. 



