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tunately I have not yet procured specimens. The first is a Tern 

 that occurs on the Hubb river and on the Indus, described to 

 me by several persons who have seen it as a bird with a beautiful 

 rosy breast. I have no doubt whatever that it is 



985 bis, —Sterna dougalli, hut time must prove the 

 fact, as I have not yet seen a specimen of the bird alluded to. 



The second is Jrcna puella, Lath. There is a specimen of the 

 Fairy Blue Bird ( $ ) in the Frere Hall collection at Kurracheo 

 Labelled Sehwan, and as Mr. Murray, Curator of the Museum, 

 assures me positively that it was shot in that neighbourhood, I 

 think it right to mention the fact, although I cannot vouch 

 personally for the authenticity of its occurrence in that locality, 

 which must, to say the least, be altogether abnormal, — Sindh 

 being alike, geographically and climatically, outside the range of 

 this species. 



With reference to the remarks under the head of Cocci/stes 

 jacobinus, ante, Vol I., p. 173, I may mention that the Pied- 

 crested Cuckoo arrives in Sindh about the same time that it does 

 in Guzerat, viz., about the last week in May, leaving again 

 after the breeding season about the middle of October. It is 

 common enough now (June 28th) in the gardens on the 

 Lyarree river referred to by Mr. James, and surely must occur 

 in other parts of Sind as well ! 



Strange to say, although I have always been on the look-out 

 for Pyrrhulauda melanaucheu, especially in the neighbourhood 

 of Kurrachee since the announcement of its occurrence in Sind, 

 S. F., Vol. I , p. 212, and since Mr. Blanford directed my atten- 

 tion to the species in a conversation I had witji him last cold 

 weather, I have never yet met with a siugle specimen. It must 

 therefore, I fancy, be a very uncommon bird, or else a mere 

 seasonal visitaut. P. grisea is common everywhere in the 

 neighbourhood of Kurrachee. 



An Alaudula* which I believe to be raytal, is very common 

 at Kurrachee ; but, as it may prove to be adamsi, I have not 

 included it in this list. 



Mr. Hume appears not to have met with Cursorius coroman- 

 deliciis when he visited Sind; but Mr. James has procured speci- 

 mens for him since. It is not rare in the neighbourhood of 



* This is unmistakably A. adamsi, with the much shorter and stouter bill, a perma- 

 nent resident on the banks of the Indus and all its affluents, and occurring occasionally 

 on the Jumna, the westernmost of the Himalayan born affluents of the Ganges, as 

 low as Dehli, where one specimen now in my Museum was shot by Capt. Bingham. 

 Quite distiuct alike from A. raj/tal, a permanent resident of the Ganges, the Brahma- 

 pootra and Irrawady, and their affluents, and from the two migratory forms of 

 pispoletta. — Ed., S. F. 



