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910. — Porzana pygmcea. One specimen shot near the Man- 

 char Lake. 



Besides the above I believe I once saw — 



845 bis. Charadrius pluvialis close to Karachi. It is not 

 improbable that the European Golden Plover may occur in Sind, 

 as I obtained it only 200 miles further west at Gluadar. C. 

 fulvus, however, does occur in Sind, for I once shot a specimen 

 at the Manchar Lake. Another bird which must, I think, be 

 added probably as a rare straggler, to the Sind Avifauna is — 



904. GrALLiCREX cristatus, a skin of which was given to 

 me by Captain Bishop, together with several birds shot in Sind 

 and on the Mekran Coast. 



Besides the above, I have obtained several of the birds no- 

 ticed in Sind by Mr. James and Major LeMesurier, but not 

 included in Mr. Hume's original list, such as Ghatorhea Earlei, 

 Gymnoris flavieollis, Emberiza striolata, Euspiza melanoce- 

 phala, Alauda gulgula, Gnrsorms coromandelicus, Gallinago 

 stenura, Numenius phceopus, and Detulrocygna major. 



flotcs on some Burmese |5irbs. 



By Eugene W. Oates, C. E. 



24.— Accipiter nisus, Lin. 



This bird has not before been recorded from Burmah. A 

 young bird, from its size presumably a female, was obtained 

 by Lieutenant Raikes, Assistant Commissioner at Yandoon, at 

 the head of the Irrawaddy Delta. It is now in my collection. 

 Wing, 9*6; tarsus, 233. 



[Captain Feilden, S. F., III. p. 24, recorded it from Thyet- 

 myo. Davison obtained it at Moolyit on the 20th of February 

 1877. For its occurrence in the Andamans, see S. F., IV., 

 p. 280.— A. O. H.] 



74 Nov.— Scops sagittatUS, Cass. Sharpe, Cat., Vol 

 II., p. 98. 



A superb specimen of this very rare Owl, sexed as a male, 

 was procured by my Burmans at Malewoonin South Tenasserim 

 on the 23rd of February. The few specimens known have 

 apparently been received only in Malacca collections. 



The skin, which does not appear to be at all stretched, 

 measures 11*5 in length; the wing, 7*2 ; tarsus, 1-21; bill 

 from forehead to tip straight, including cere, "87 ; tail, 5'0 ; the 

 outer feathers falling short of the central pair by '7 ; the 

 5th quill is the longest, the Gth '1, the 4th -15, the 3rd '55, 

 the 2nd 1*2, and the 1st 2*3 shorter than the fifth. 



