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ground within miles of the place where they were, and they 

 only remained for a few days. 



272 .— Mergus castor, Lin. 



There is a fine specimen, a ? , of this species in the Frere Hall 

 Museum, shot by Captain Bishop at the Manorah Point off the 

 Kurrachec Harbour, and another specimen has just been captur- 

 ed at the same place, now at the end of June. 



[694.— Ploceus baya, Blyth. 



A specimen sent me from Col. Haig, caught in the Kurra- 

 chee Collectorate, clearly belongs to this species, and not to 

 either manyar or bengalensis. — A. 0. H.] 



987 l is.— Sterna albigena, Licht. 



This Tern, already recorded from the Laccadives by Mr. 

 Hume, and from Bombay by the Marquis of Tweeddale, is com- 

 mon in the Kurrachee Harbour all along the Mekran Coast, 

 and in the Persian Gulf, at any rate during the latter part 

 of the spring and during the summer. Whether they occur 

 during the cold season I cannot yet say. Mr. Hume did not 

 notice them in March. 



[I have already (S. F., IV., p. 467-9) described and furnished 

 dimensions of two males of this species killed on the 13th of 

 February at the Cherbaniani Reef. 



The following are the dimensions of females killed by Captain 

 Butler at Kurrachee on the 12th and 14th of April : — 

 L. Ex. T. W. 



587 9-25 



5-25 9-37 



362 1012 

 (imperf.) 



The first two specimens are coming into breeding plumao-e 

 and have the entire breast, abdomen, and sides, a sort of pale 

 smoky lead colour, only slightly mottled here and there with 

 greyish white, and the throat aud sides of neck white, mottled 

 with dusky grey. 



They had the irides blackish brown ; the bill blackish, lake-red 

 towards the base of both mandibles ; the legs and feet brio-lit red. 



The heads and upper surface, as already described in the 

 February specimens, so that they are still far removed from the 

 full breeding plumage described, vol. cit., 469. 



The third is a young bird pure white underneath ; all the 

 coverts along the ulna brown, and with the winglet and prima- 

 ries browner and duller than in adults in even winter plumage. 



