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late E, BarneSj who says that he obtained an egg from a tisherinan, who 

 found it on a sand-bank in the Indus. This egg, from its very small size, 

 he believed to have belonged to the present species, and he adds that he 

 examined the hnge series of Flamino-o eo-o-s in the Frere Hall Museum. 

 Karachi, but failed to detect any so small. There is no reason why the 

 egg should not belong to P. minor, and Barnes was so careful in the 

 statements he made, that this egg is more likely to belong to that bird 

 than to P. roseus. 



