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shot for me ; they were all in immature dress with the black 

 of the crown and the dark brownish grey of the back and 

 lower hind neck edged with white ; bill and feet black ; there is 

 no sign of any orange tint about the legs. The mean measure- 

 ments of 6 specimens was : Length, 136 ; wing, 8'92 ; tail 

 (this varies much according to age of feather) 5 '4 3; bill at 

 front, 1'67 ; tarsus, "77 ; mid toe and claw, I'll. A few weeks 

 later I saw numbers off the Great Basses lighthouse, and found 

 them clustering on the buoys of native vessels in Batticaloa 

 roads. During the cool season, I have several times observed 

 them here and procured specimens. An individual caught in a 

 net on the 6th of December had the scapulars and back very 

 broadly edged with white; there is a small dark spot anterior to 

 the eye ; the lateral tail feathers arc blackish brown, with a fine 

 white edge to the basal portion of outer web. Those shot in 

 August had the outer web of this feather mostly white, the api- 

 cal portion darkening into brown. The wing measured 10 - 05, 

 while the largest wing of the six examples shot at ■ Colombo, 

 was 9*6. 



992 bis.— Sterna fuliginosa, Gmelin. (315 bis.) 



A flock of these Terns frequented the water beneath the 

 cliffs of Fort Frederick for a fortnight in April last. I procured 

 examples, some with the under surface suffused with smoky 

 grey, and others nearly pure white beneath. A male measured 

 14-8 with a wing of 10 -5 nearly ; bill at front 1*7 ; nearly all the 

 outer web of the lateral rectrices was white, a narrow black line 

 only bordering the shaft near the tip. These Terns fly along close 

 to the water and pick up their food by fluttering on to the 

 surface and dipping the bill on. 



F. V. Legge. 

 Trincomalie, Ceylon, 1st September 1875. 



fbMtional Soles on tlje gbitaa of SinMj.* 



By Major A. LeMessurier. 



Stray Feathers, Vol. I., p. 234, notices that a specimen of 861 

 (Dromas ardeola,) the Crab Plover had been procured in this 

 harbour. I shot one behind Baba Island on the 1st September 

 1872, agreeing with the desci'iption given in Jerdon. 



I saw several 3 days ago in the same locality ; first a flock 

 of 12, then 5, and finally shot a single bird. The dimensions 



* Vide previous papers, Vol. I., pp. 44-49 ; 91-289 ; 419-421. In these papers 289 

 species have been enumerated from Sindh ; to these the present paper adds 2 addition- 

 al ones (Nos. 870 and 878), and Mr. Blanford has recently added Hypcrcolius am- 

 peUnus. Our present total stands therefore at 292 species, but I have little doubt that 

 a really complete list will include at least 350 species.— Ei>,, S. F, 



