ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF SINDH. 381 



877. — [Numcnius avquata). Noticed great numbers of Cur- 

 lew, solitary or in pairs, on my return from Lahore in August. 



878.— Numenius phceopus. 



Noticed flocks of Whimbrel for three nights in August, flying 

 from the inner harbour towards Ghizree and the Indus Delta ; 

 some came back as if in play flying along the mangrove swamps 

 close to the ground. Tarsus 2h omitted in Jerdon. 



888. — (Calidris arenaria). Shot a Sanderling out of a group 

 of seven feeding on the shore about 4 miles beyond Manora. 

 Plumage incomplete, extent 14^ ; wing, 4 # 44 ; tail not fully de- 

 veloped, 2, the central tail feather appearing quite decomposed ; 

 bill at front rather more than 1; bill from gape, 1^; tarsus 

 nearly 1. 



90 1 . — {Hydropliasianas clrirurgns) . Doig sent me a Pheasant- 

 tailed Jacana from the Narra with 2 eggs. The specimens are 

 now in Frere Hall ; the description is as in Jerdon, but the under 

 tail-coverts were dark brown and not deep chesnut; the second- 

 aries are w r hite, and the tertiaries' brown, with a small pointed 

 spur on wing. I could not trace any sign of a nostril. 



903. — (Fulica atra). Bishop shot a Bald Coot in the harbour 

 on 22nd October. 



956. — {Tadorna cornvdci). I shot a couple of Shieldrakes 

 when out with Brand one evening in 1872 at Soondra. In the 

 male the cheek was brown and the forehead tinged white, and the 

 feathers in the head were tipped brown. The feathers on shoulder 

 and the wing were edged black, and the inner webs of the speci- 

 mens were white, tipped black; bill blood red, tipped black; 

 wing, 12§-. The female wanted the pectoral band, but had the 

 red brown between the shoulders, cheeks and forehead white ; 

 bill more red than in the male, with dusky tip. Primaries black ; 

 secondaries tipped white ; greater coverts forming a faint spe- 

 culum, bronzed green, edged light brown ; tertiaries dull brown ; 

 lower plumage white, mottled with dull brown ; under tail- 

 coverts pale red. 



962. — (Dajila acuta) . Out with Hart and Bishop to seethe 

 Salt Pans at the head of the harbour. On landing, Hart turned 

 off after a Gull (argentatus ?) that he had wounded, and Bishop 

 and I passed on to the Moach Plain. We saw 3 ducks on a 

 small pool of water in a nullah and by going in different direc- 

 tions managed to secure them all ; one was a Blue-win oed Teal 



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and the others I afterwards found out to be a j'oung couple of 

 Pintails. The male had the head dusky, minutely spotted in- 

 creasing on to the neck. Tail of 10 feathers with central fea- 

 thers pointed but not elongated. There was the pale red bar 

 above the black green speculum with the white edge ; tertiaries 

 very broad dark grey, with broad velvet stripe yellowish edging; 



