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merely marching through the country he discovered several new species and 
added no less than 18 others to the avifauna of India. I had the honour of 
giving him one of these, the European Golden Oriole, which I obtained in the 
Liyari Gardens, the only specimen ever shot in India, No less than three rare 
sand-grouse were procured: Lichtensteint (the pretty painted one which you 
occasionally see in the hills) ; Coronatus, still rarer (of which Mr, Watson shot 
the first pair right and left—I procured specimens on the Manchar Lake last 
year); and Senegallus, the yellow-throated sand-grouse with the spotted female, 
which is very common on the Manchar, and even extends into Gujerat. Later 
on, other ornithologists like Mr, Scrope Doig in the Eastern Nara, Colonel 
Butler of the 83rd Regiment, and Colonel LeMessurier, R.E., sent many con- 
tributions from’ Sind. Mr. Doig rediscovered Blyth’s Passer pyrrhonotus, a 
_small sparrow peculiar to Sind, which had been lost for about 50 years, since 
Sir Alexander Burnes obtained a single specimen in his first journey through 
Sind, and which the great naturalist Blyth recognised as a new and separate 
species. But yet Gallinula burnesii, Sir Alexander Burnes’ water-hen, very 
like the common one, but smaller and without the boss on the forehead, has 
not yet been found, and I believe myself it is a doubtful species. Cercomela 
melanura, the black-tailed wheat-ear (the wheat-ear of Sind has white feathers 
at the base of its tail), has also not been found, though Sir Alexander Burnes 
brought it from Sind, and asit occurs at Aden, it doubtless finds its way 
into Mekran. Mr. Doig also discovered the nests and eggs of many birds 
previously unknown to Indian ornithologists and some unknown to science, 
Placed as Sind is, on a kind of dividing line between the peninsular of 
Hindustan with its tropical forms and the temperate regions of Beluchistan 
and Persia, it is a half-way house where vast numbers of rare birds meet. I 
left Sind shortly after Mr, Hume, but I had the pleasure first of adding 10 
more to his Sind list. Mr, Hume’s first list gave 280 birds. In 1877 the list 
had grown to 334, which was converted into 335 in the same year by the addi- 
tion of a wood-cock killed in the Liyari Gardens by Colonel Butler. General 
Marston has, during a residence of 50 years, only known of 2 others, both of 
which fell to his gun. In 1878 Mr. Doig and Colonel Butler added eight more, 
and Mr, Murray added quite a long list, In 1879 the Sind list of birds stood 
at 378 ascertained species and 13 doubtful ones. In 1881 Mr. Doig added 
2 more, one of them being the famous Passer pyrrhonotus. Mr. Barnes added 
another in 1882, thus making a grand total of 381 and 13 doubtful. Mr, Hume 
prophesied that the number would reach 400, but unfortunately, just before 
that goal was attained, he renounced ornithology. 
Even about Karachi, I must tell you, most interesting birds are to be found, 
I shot the second specimen ever killed in India, of a rare web-footed sandpiper 
(Lobipes hyperboreus), in the harbour here, Colonel Butler, riding out to Clifton 
one day, saw on the wet ground to the right a number of terns (those exquisite 
french-grey-clad sea-swallows) wheeling about, and discovered the eggs of a 
