Miscellaneous notHs. 4oi 



had no time to preserve the specimen, which is very rare within Indian 



limits, only one or two others having been previously recorded. It is, however, 



stated in Vol. IV. of " Birds of the Fame of Indian series to be probably fairly 



common on the coast of Baluchistan,'' and " both a salt and fresh-water bird," 



30 there is nothing surprising in its occurrence in this neighbourhood. The 



tank at Khiish-dil-Khan is a fairly large artificial one, formed by bunding 



up a valley ; and is well known to most sportsmen who ha^e served in the 



Quetta District. 



C. G. NURSE, 



(Major, 13th Bombay Infantry). 

 Quetta, ith A^ril, 1902. 



No. XXT.— NK^TING OF THE GEEY PELICAN {PELECANVS 



PHILIPPENSIS) IN THE CUDDAPAH DISTRICT, 



MADRAS PRESIDENCY. 



On looking over Blanford's *' Birds " the other day I noticed the statement 

 that of late years no authentic account of Pelicans breeding in India has 

 appeared. In 1890 when in camp in a secluded valley in the extreme East 

 of the Cuddapah District, in the end of March, I found a large number of 

 Grey Pelicans breeding in company with a community of Painted Storks 

 .{Pseurlotantalus leucocephalus). The nests, of which there were several 

 hundreds, were on neem and tamarind trees in a small village called Buchu- 

 palle. The people of the village were very much averse to any interference 

 with the nests. The birds trusted them and they would not have them 

 injured, they said ; so I did not examine many nests, I got three eggs of the 

 Painted Storks, hard set, from one nest, but in every other nest, so far as 

 I could see, there were young birds. The parent birds of both species kept 

 coming and going, bringing quantities of a fine trailing of water-weed, from 

 a tank about two miles off, to feed their young, 



W. HOWARD CAMPBELL. 



GooTY, Madras, 2nd April, 1902. 



