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before the end of August or beginning of September, and I have 
heard of nests being found both in the latter month and in 
October in the neighbourhood of Ahmedabad and in the neigh- 
bourhood of Erinpoora. 
I may mention that since writing the above I shot a Painted 
Snipe, (¢) near Deesa on the 16th September with the ovaries 
containing eggs in an advanced stage, showing that it would 
have laid in a few days if it had lived. 
[Occurs, though sparingly during the cold season, in all suit- 
able localities throughout the entire region, but is everywhere 
here more common during the rains.—A. O. H.] 
875.—Limosa egocephala, Lin. 
The Black-tailed Godwit is common in the plains in the cold 
weather, frequenting tanks and marshy ground in considerable 
flocks. The flesh-is excellent. 
[Common throughout the entire region.—A. O. H.] 
876.—Terekia cinerea, Gmel. 
The Avoset Sandpiper is very common in most of the large 
tanks between Deesa and Ahmedabad, associating in flocks 
ranging in numbers usually from about ten to twenty. 
[A coast species common along and for 20 or 30 miles inland 
from, the coasts of Sindh, Cutch and Kattiawar, but never 
occurring (except possibly at passage) in Jodhpoor or far in the 
interior of Sindh.—A. O. H.] 
. lineatus, Cuv. 
877.—Numenius | arquata, Lin. 
The Curlew arrives quite as early as July, as I have shot 
them near Deesa in the middle of that month at the very 
commencement of the rains. __ 
It is common in the tank country (though rare elsewhere,) fre- 
quenting the edges of the jheels in immense flocks often num- 
bering as many as two or three hundred. On the ground they 
pack very closely together, and with a heavy charge of shot 
well laid on you may often kill as many as ten or a dozen with 
a single barrel. Like most of the other of these marsh birds 
they generally take a long flight over the marshes about dusk 
and another at daybreak in the opposite direction ; ( I suppose to 
and from their feeding grounds). 
[Occurs throughout the entire region, though rare in Jodh- 
poor, where the localities suited to it are few.—A. O. H.] 
878.—Numenius pheopus, Lin. 
The Whimbrel is rare. Dr. Jerdon says: ‘ Always found in 
flocks in marshy ground,” I have frequently seen it and shot it 
alone. 
