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back blade, with 2 white bars ; and central tail black, with 

 yellow stripe ; wing-ebverts hair brown with white edging ; the 

 flank feathers as in the female and not as in the adult male, 

 transversely banded black and white. Length, 24 ; wing, 10^ ; 

 tarsus, If ; mid toe, 2\ ; Female, with central tail as in yonng 

 male, but more marked with yellow. Lower plumage altogether 

 more rnfous. Length, 20 ; tarsus, 1^ ; mid toe with claw, 2| ; 

 wing, 9f. 



965. — [Querquedula circia). Bishop shot three Blue-winged 

 Teal on 1st September in some irrigated fields at the Hubb River. 

 They had probably remained near the river throughout the year ; 

 for the flights of duck were not noticed across the harbour till 

 the middle of September. The Mohanas on the Dunds have all 

 their fowling nets ready, but do not expect the birds in any 

 numbers till after the coming full moon, November 13th. 



979. — {Lams icldhgoetus). In Stray Feathers, Vol. I., 

 p. 278, the w r eight of the Great Black-headed Gull is entered at 

 2 lbs. Bishop shot one at Pusnee on the Mekran Coast in Feb- 

 ruary last, and found the weight to be 3| lbs. The specimen 

 has been placed in Frere Hall, fie is a great bird and may well 

 be called a Vulture of the sea. 



The Gulls generally were changing to their summer plumage 

 at the end of March, they had all left the harbour by the end 

 of April ; and their return here for the winter may be fixed for 

 this year as during the first 9 days of September. Their 

 plumage is not yet full, as can be plainly noticed when on the 

 Aving. 



A. LeMessurier. 



Unification anb kecMncj Ijabits of tlje large foscvvincjcft 

 f avoquct iu ilie €astcvn JSuntata. 



By H. James Rainey. 



Of the nidification and breeding habits of this exceedingly 

 pretty species of Paroquet, the local name of which is Chandana* 

 I made some notes several years ago, when residing in that 

 locality, and those notes form the basis of this paper. 



From the last-half of the month of March up to the first- 

 half of the month of May, these birds are to be seen flocking 

 to the interior of the forests of the Eastern Sundurbun, 

 especially that portion of it situated between the Haringhata 



* I cannot presume to guess at the correct scientific name of this species. It is 

 what Blyth and Jerclon would have included in Alexandra; but then modern ornitholo- 

 gists have shown that this name is not applicable to any Indian species, and Mr. Hume 

 has shown, Vol. II., p. 10, that we have several distinct nearly allied species, three at 

 any rate, — sivalensis Hutton ; eupatrizis, Lin ; magnirostris, Ball ; and possibly 

 nijjaleiisis, Hodgs, I suspect our bird is intermediate between the two latter. 



