380 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF SINDH. 



839. — (Sypheotides aurilus). The Lesser Florikin were shot 

 at Sapoora as early as 1st August, and ou 15th August eight 

 were shot, all except one in black plumage. 



On the 3rd October, Mulock and Wise got 15 out of 18 in a 

 clump on the other side of the Hubb River, all without excep- 

 tion were in brown plumage and not a black feather amongst 

 them. One was sent to me, a young bird nearly fully fledged — 

 the primaries were less acuminated than in the adult, and 

 measured as much as §-th, 3- 16th and 5-lGth across the 1st, 3rd 

 and 6th quills close to the tip. There was no white on the 

 wing shoulder, and Mulock tells me that the absence of this 

 color was noticed on all the birds secured. Thus between 15th 

 August and the 3rd October the cock birds seemed to have 

 entirely changed. 



847. — (sEgialites mongolicus) . Shot three of the Lesser Sand 

 Plover from a flock of small Sandpipers on 2nd October. 



860. — (Strepsilas interpres). On 20th August, when return- 

 ing from bathing in the sea at Chinnee Creek, I picked up a 

 Turnstone in summer plumage on the Keamaree branch line. 

 It had evidently flown against the Telegraph wire, for its breast 

 was cut and the wing broken. I secured 3 more on Baba Is- 

 land, changing plumage, on the 13th October, and 4 more on 

 the Breakwater on the 15th. The winter plumage is given in 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. I., p. 233. 



862. — (Hamalopus ostrealegxis) . On 23rd October I shot an 

 Oyster Catcher in changing plumage below Manora Point. 

 Jerdon does not mention the white spot under the eye or that 

 the chin and throat are white. The irides were madder brown ; 

 the 1st primary is dark brown, with a portion of the shaft white 

 and a white clash on the inner side of the inner web; the 4th 

 had a larger dash of white on the inner web, and a white mark 

 like a spear head running through both webs with the shaft 

 white: the 8th white with brown tip, and more color on the 

 inner web. The secondaries white with brown dash at tip across 

 outer and portion of inner web. 



870.— Gallinago sthenura. 



I have not shot a Pin-tailed Snipe since 1872. I have the 

 side tail feathers still by me. They are If long, stiff and curved, 

 six on each side, of a dusky color, with yellow tips. 



871,872. — Gallinago scolopacinus et gallinula). Braud sent 

 me four couples of Common and Jack Snipe from Joongshae 

 on 3rd October.* The birds were very plump. 



* As I was correcting the proof of this paper a letter came to hand from Lieut. 

 P. J. Maitland, who, writing from Jacobabad, says: — "The first full Snipe was shot here 

 on the 28th August; the first Jack on the 4th October. It is more difficult to fix 

 the exact date of the Quail, but they are very regular, always arriving during the last 

 week or ten, days of August."— Ec, S. E. 



