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specimens. Of these, nearly half have been seen, a considerable 
number pertain to the high hills about Mooleyit, which we 
have not yet worked, and the occurrence of the remainder, a 
very few, is more or less doubtful. 
It is hoped that by the close of this new year we may be in 
a position to furnish a fair account of the Ornis of the Tenas- 
serim Provinces. 
A. O. H. 
Motes. 
I HAVE to add— 
299dis.—Butalis grisola, Lin., to the Avifauna of Sindh, 
having recently received a specimen, obtained near Kotree, at 
the end of August.—(cf. IIT., p. 467) Also 
834.—Turnix joudera, Hodgs., obtained near Kurrachee, 
by Major A. Le Messurier, in August. This raises the Sindh 
list (see I., 148, 419, III. 378-382,417) to 295 species. 
To Caprain C. H. T. Marshall is due the credit of being the 
first to notice the occurrence of Querquedula falcata, Gorgi., 
in India. He has recently sent us a young male, obtained at 
the Bazida jheel in the Kurnal district. Heat once recog- 
nized the species and notified its occurrence to us, and to him 
belongs the credit of causing its appearance in India to be 
recorded. 
At the same time it is due to Dr. Bonavia to state that years 
ago, before Stray F'raTHERS came into existence, he very kindly 
presented us with specimens of this Duck and of Clangula 
glaucion, which he had procured in Oudh, as examples of species 
not included in Dr. Jerdon’s work, and with which he was un- 
acquainted. It was owing partly to pressure of other work and 
partly to the absence of any vehicle, such as Stray Fearuers 
for giving publicity to such isolated scraps of news, that the 
birds after being catalogued were put away in the Museum, and 
the fact that the occurrence of this species in Upper India had 
never been published, overlooked. 
Hetters to the Editor. 
Sir, 
Permit me to make a few remarks ona paper by Mr. Edwin 
Brooks, ¢.E., “ Notes upon a collection of Birds made between 
Mussoorie and Gangaotrie in May 1874,” which appeared in 
“Srray Fraruers” for 1875. Mr. Brooks may be a close 
observer, but his paper only seems to shew how even a close 
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