LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 327 
?1004.—Pelicanus philippensis, Gm. The Grey 
Pelican. 
I found eight Pelicans, I believe, of this species, at the 
Moukhti tank in the beginning of May 1881. I could not 
get near enough to procure a specimen. 
1006.—Phalacrocorax fuscicollis,* steph The Les- 
ser Cormorant. 
Both this and the next species are very common along the 
Panjra, and also fairly common along both the Goma and Tapti. 
I think I have seen them in large flocks at all seasons, but I 
have never seen any signs of their breeding. 
1007.—Phalacrocorax pygmeus,* Pall. The Little 
Cormorant. 
Equally common with the larger species. 
1008.—Plotus melanogaster, Penn, The Indian 
Snake Bird. 
Probably a permanent resident. Moderately common on all 
pieces of water. 
Ketters to the Editor. 
Sir, 
I REQUEST permission to correct an inadvertent error 
in my letter, printed in Stray Featuers, Vol. X., p. 159. 
I there said that all the 23 specimens of Buteo desertorum 
preserved in the Norwich Museum have the wing measurement 
over 14 inches, but I ought to have limited this statement to 
20 out of the 23, as three of the smaller specimens mentioned in 
the succeeding paragraph also form part of the series in the 
Museum at Norwich. 
Iam, yours, &c., 
J. H. Gurney. 
Sir 
1 XBE to-day’s post I have sent you the skin of a female 
Circus melanoleucus. No mistake about the sex. It was flying 
past the bungalow with some bird in its claws, and it was 
more to find out what it had caught that I shot it. Taking 
