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near Peshawar. (4) In 1900 Mr, Jones of the Indo-European 

 Telegraph Co. shot two swans out of a herd of nine on January 10th. 

 (5) In the Karachi Museum there is the skin of a bird, which was 

 captured by Mr. Oumming, platelayer, after it had injured itself 

 against a telegraph wire. This was on the 13th January 1900 and 

 the bird formed one of a flock of eight. (6) Two swans were captured 

 in nets by natives on the 6th February 1900 at Sita Road station. 

 (7) At Boston on the Baluchistan Frontier four swans were shot by 

 a Mr. Matthews, platelayer, early in February 1900. (8) In the 

 same year Mr. J. Orerar, I.O.S., shot one about the middle of March 

 on the Manchur Lake, Sind. (9) At the end of March the same year 

 ten swans were seen and repeatedly fired at by Mr, "Vivien on the 

 Laki Lake. (10) On the 27th April 1900 a swan was shot by 

 Mr. Wragge, platelayer, at Metong, about 12 miles from the Indus, 

 (11) In the same year Major-General Egerton saw a herd of 

 swans at Kandian on the Indus. (12) In the end of March 1910 

 Capt. H. O'Brien obtained one at Nowshera. (13) Mr. P. Lord 

 shot one on the E,. Sohan, Punjab, on 26th January 1911. 

 (14) In 1911, on 6th February, Mr, L, 0, Glascock shot one near 

 Lahore. 



Distribution. — " Denmark and South Sweden, South Eussia, 

 valley of the Danube, Transylvania and Greece, and passing the 

 Northern Shores of the Caspian to Turkestan and Mongolia, wan- 

 ders in the Southern portions of the Caspian occasionally in the 

 extreme North- West of India and in the Basin of the Mediter- 

 ranean' ' ( S al vadori) . 



