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discovered a new hare out at Malir, and to discover so large a mammal at the 
end of the XIXth century is no small feat, Amongst the bats, rats, and mice 
much remains to be done. I saw a rat not long ago that I feel certain is new, 
for once on a time I had to study rats on account of the desolation caused in 
Sind by a species of rodent, And in company with rats, Sind is rich in wild 
cats. The tiger is nearly, if not quite, extinct in Sind, but the panther is 
occasionally procured, These of course are well familiar to us all, but there 
are also some magnificent varieties of wild cats in the forests, including the 
lynx or shiagosh, General Marston and I once came upon a splendid specimen 
in the hills that had been killed by a panther, Several smaller varieties of 
Felis also exist which require identification. Of deer, the magnificent ‘“guin” 
or swamp-deer, which Mr. Watson has seen in the north of the Rohri Division, 
is almost, if not quite, extinct, but I believe that investigators might find the 
rare Arabian Chikara or ravine deer, if they looked for it, out beyond the 
Hubb. The hog deer is still common, but the black buck is absent except in 
His Highness Mir Ali Murad’s preserves. The wild ass of Sind, of which we 
have two fine specimens in the Zoological Gardens, is perhaps our best mammal, 
Then we have the splendid Sind Ibex, peculiar to Sind and Mekran ; we have 
the great Markhor on the hills to the north-west, and the Oorial or Gud. 
No. XV.~SINGLE VALVE OF TRIDACNA SQUAMOSA, THE 
GREAT SCALY CLAM, FROM TANNA CREEK, 
This specimen was obtained by fishermen in the mouth of the Tanna Creek 
during July, 1893, and exhibited on the 31st idem. 
Tt is the first that I have got on this coast, and the species is unknown to 
the fishermen ; but it is figured by Woodward as a Bombay Mollusc on the 
authority of Chemnitz, In the Society’s interleaved copy of Woodward’s 
Manual of the Mollusca, opposite the key tothe plate, there is a remark 
of my own, suggesting that Chemnitz’s locality may have been the bazaar 
rather than the harbour of Bombay. All the large clams have long been 
imported in a casual way to Bombay, and used for ornamental or quasi orna- 
mental purposes, This specimen, which is large, and much worn, may have 
been lost from a boat on its way from Bombay to Tannu. 
W. F. SINCLAIR, £.C.S. 
TANNA, August, 1893. 
No. XVI.—BIRDS OBSERVED BREEDING IN KHARAGHORA. 
I write to record the finding of the Kentish Ringed Plover breeding here 
in the Salt Works. I found two nests of this bird, each with three eggs, and 
shot what I took to be the hen bird as it left its nest. I sent the skin to Lieut. 
H. H. Barnes, at Ahmednagar, for identification, and he writes to me that it is 
