AND NORTHERN GUZERAT. 
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oe. 
IT take this opportunity of noticing that the Swans, which 
Stoliczka (who was very short sighted) thought he saw (J.A.S.B. 
1872. p. 229) on the Runn between Cutch and Pacham, were 
pretty certainly P. crispus which I have seen from this very 
locality, and which I saw on the Sindh coast, and again on the 
western coast of Kattiawar. There is not the slightest reason 
to believe that Swans occur anywhere within Indian limits out- 
side the Himalayas except. in the extreme North-West Punjaub. 
—A. 0. H.] 
1004.—Pelecanus philippensis, Gmel. 
The Grey Pelican is about as common as the last, and occurs 
on the same ground. 
[Is found throughout the entire region. I myself saw it at 
the Sambhur Lake, though Mr. Adam has failed as yet to 
secure any specimen there.—A. O. H.] 
1005.—Graculus carbo, Zin. 
The Large Cormorant oceurs on all of the large tanks, special- 
ly preferring those with wooded islands, upon the trees of which, 
selecting as a rule those which are either dead or leafless, it 
delights to sit and bask in the sun with its tail spread and 
its wings half open. I observed it on the lake at Mount Aboo. 
[Common in suitable localities throughout the entire re- 
gion.—A. O. H.] 
1006.—Graculus sinensis, Shaw. 
The Lesser Cormorant is a bird that I am_ not quite sure 
about, but as a bird intermediate in size and somewhat differ- 
ent in plumage to either the last or the next species does occur 
both on the lake at Mount Aboo and in the plains below, I have 
entered it in my list under that head, and given a full descrip- 
tion of it in the hope that some one may point out my 
mistake if it belongs to any other species. Measurements taken 
in the flesh as follows:—Length, 24 ; wing, 9°75, tail, 5:5; 
bill at front, 2°25; bill at gape, 3 inches. Upper mandible green- 
ish black; lower mandible fleshy; gular skin yellow ; legs 
and feet black; irides green. 
Description :—Upper parts brownish black, slightly glossed 
with green; scapulars and lower hind neck silvery earth 
brown, having many of the feathers, especially of the scapulars, 
bordered conspicuously with brownish black and finely edged 
with pale brown. 
Wings and tail dark ; wing-coverts brown, glossed with 
green; chin and upper throat white; neck mottled brown 
and white; from neck to vent brownish black with a good deal 
of white on the breast and abdomen, the latter almost all white 
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