40 NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF MOUNT ABOO 
little to distinguish the Avifauna of Northern Guzerat from 
that of Jodhpore, Cutch and Kattiawar. 
The only birds that I have seen from Jodhpore, not yet in- 
cluded in the Guzerat or Aboo lists, are Aquila heliaca, Bulaca 
ocellata, Taccocua sirkee, Budytes flava, Tringa subarquata, Anser 
indicus and Sterna melanogaster. 
The only Cutch birds are Falco barbarus, Otus vulgaris, Cotile 
obsoleta, (which also oceurs in Sindh) Planesticus atrogularis 
(do.) Stoliezka’s Pratincola macrorhyncha (of which I confess 
I am doubtful, but append the original description*) Certhilauda 
desertorum (which also occurs in Sindh) and Pelecanus crispus, 
which also occurs in Kattiawar, Sindh, and even as far eastward 
as the Ganges Doab, where I have shot it near Htawa. 
I know of no species from Kattiawar that has not been 
included in Capt. Butler’s list, or already like Pterocles 
senegallus mentioned in this list, except gialitis minutus, 
recorded by Capt. Hayes Lloyd (non vidi) Strepsilas interpres, 
Tringa cinclus, Calidris arenaria, Larus leucopheus, Pelecanopus 
Bergii and Thalasseus bengalensis ; all coast birds. 
In Sindh, on the other hand, a good number of species occur, 
which have not yet been reported from any other part of the 
whole region, though doubtless many of the sea-birds will yet be 
found to occur on the coasts of Cutch and Kattiawar. 
* “A88bis. Pratincola macrorhyncha, n. sp. 
“T shot at the beginning of 1872 two specimens of a Pratincola, (probably female 
‘the sex was unfortunately not determined), which appears to be distinct from any 
“ other yet known. General plumage, above dull brown, all the feathers margined with pale 
“ isabelline or fulvescent whitish, most broadly on scapulars and tertials, narrowly on the 
*¢ quills; upper tail-coverts nearly entirely uniform pale fulvescent or sandy only 
“along the centre of a darker hue. Central tail feathers brown, the succeedi.ng also 
“brown and very pale rufescent fulvous about the basal half of both webs, (not along 
“ the shafts), the rufescent colour gradually, not abruptly, passing into the brown; outer 
“ web of last tail feather wholly sandy or pale fulvescent white, and all have pale tips 
“which however easily wear off. Lores and supercilium sandy white; ears dusky. 
“ Lower plumage fulvescent white throughout, with a slight shade of cream colour; all the 
“feathers on their basal halves are dark slaty, which is also the case on the upper plumage 
“ Bill and feet nearly quite black. Total length about 5:2 to 55; wing, 2°85 to 
“2-9; first primary nearly 1 and 1:2 shorter than the second, which is very nearly 
“* equal to the 6th and 0°24 shorter than the fourth, this being the longest; the 3rd 
“and 65th are sub-equal and very little shorter than the fourth; tail 2°71 to 2.25 
“ tarsus, 0°95 to 0°97 ; bill at front, 0°48 to 0°5; from gape 0°72 ; hind toe and claw 0:57 ; 
* hind claw alone 0°3; mid toe with claw 0°72 to 0°73 inch. The size of the bill which is 
“yather narrow and saxicoline, and the length of the legs readily distinguish this appar- 
“ ently new species ; it is not the female of P.rubetra, this having the basal half of the tail 
“ white, and the bill shorter and broad at the base. It is alsonot a female or young of 
“ P. caprata, moreover the length and slenderness of the hind claw does not agree 
“(with any Pratincola, nor even with Sawvicola, but strange enough with Oreicola 
** (Rhodophila.) 
“ One of the two specimens was shot in Jannary near Raipur in the Wagur district, and 
“ the other in February near Bhuj, in both cases in an open desert country with scanty low 
‘bushes, These were the only two specimens which I saw, but possibly the bird may not 
“be so very rare, for I could never pay undivided attention to any ornithological subject.” 
F, Stoliczka, J. A. S. B., 1872, p. 238, 
