166 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 
entirely white, the hind neck and round to below the nude 
pouch are mottled with dusky, as 1s also the lower back and 
rump and the lesser eoverts. 
The following are the measurements :— 
Male——tLength, 324; bill at front, 4; gape, 43; tail from 
vent, 8; tarsus, 24. Irides lemon yellow; bill horny, blackish at 
base; both mandibles denticulated or serrate for one-half their 
length from tip ; head, neck, upper back, breast, abdomen, and 
lower tail-coverts white, with a very slight yellowish tinge ; the 
feathers of the neck all round from below the nude pouch, and also 
a small space behind each eye, tipped with dusky brown, also 
those of the lower back and rump, but broadly ; the primaries 
were cut by the fisherman who brought in the bird, and as 
much as can be seen are chocolate brown, and also are the 
secondaries, tertiaries, scapulars and greater coverts; the bases 
of all white ; lesser coverts white, with tippings and_ broad 
dashes of the same chocolate brown; the outer webs of 
some of the scapulars are white ; tail chocolate brown, or a 
shade darker than the primaries ; legs and feet slaty blue. 
Can this be a young* bird? It was got on the 9th July. 
The fisherman who brought it in said there were three flocks of 
about 30 in each, about three miles out of the harbour, and that 
the specimen I have entangled itself in his net. The man 
also said it was the first of its kind ever seen in or about the 
Kurrachee Sea. 
KURRACHI, James A, Murray. 
26th August 1881. 
SIR 
I BELIEVE that Glareola lactea has not yet been 
recorded from Sind. I found them very common at Kotri. My 
first specimens were obtained on the 20th February. On dissec- 
tion I found that they were about to breed. Early in March 
I unfortunately sprained my knee, and was unable to go after 
them, but on the 10th I managed to drive along the banks of 
the Indus, and about a mile downstream I found a small island 
literally swarming with birds, evidently breeding. They com- 
prised the following kinds :—Sterna seena, Rhynchops albicollis, 
Glareola lactea, anda pair of Esacus recurvirostris. I made 
arrangements next day to have the eggs taken. I could not go 
myself as 1 could scarcely put my foot to the ground, so I sent 
a Bheel shikaree with my gun, but he was arrested before he 
had gone half a mile for carrying arms, and the gun taken 
from him, and it was only after a deal of bother that I got it back. 
On the 15th I again drove down, but found that during the 
* Yes, clearly an immature bird.—Ep., 8. F. 
