4 
WATERS OF WESTEEN INDIA. 
7 
The European, Chinese, and Little Cormorants abound, and all 
three: are said to breed in Sind. As regards the first-named, this 
seems to require further examination. 
The Snake Bird undoubtedly abounds and breeds here, 
Of true Teals, the Grey and Garganey (“ blue-winged”’) Teal are 
common in winter, and the Siberian Querquedula formosa (or gloct- 
tans) has been obtained. 
The essentially tropical Cotton Teal (which is not a teal at all, but 
a dwarf goose) does not, I think, occur in Sind. I have one report 
of the Bengali Pink-headed Duck occurring as a straggler, but it 
cannot yet be called a recorded species. 
The universal Dabchick is common, and the Crested and Black~ 
necked Gulls occur, the latter especially near the mouths of the Indus. 
Of Seafowl proper we have one, Petrel, Oceanites oceanica, and 
a shear water, Puffinus persicus. The gulls and terns are abundant, 
much more so than in the Konkan region, and, as might be expected, 
show a strong northern element. The strange Skimmer (Rhyn- 
chops) is locally abundant on the Indus. 
ReEptives. 
Amongst the Chelonia, or tortoises and turtles, Sind offers nothing 
‘new worth noticing in such a paper as this, except that (as might 
be expected) the aquatic species are more developed in the Indus 
| than they commonly are in the lesser fresh waters hitherto noticed. 
In suitable places, and especially near such large towns as Sakkar, 
where food is abundant, they reach dimensionsat which an alderman 
need not sneeze. Of tortoises there are two species of Pangshura, 
with 5 claws on the fore fect and 4 behind, P tentoria and 
smith. Neither reaches a foot long, as hitherto observed. Of 
Batagur there are three species—Dhongoka, Baska, Thargi—all with 
the same unguiculation, but approaching or reaching 2 feet in 
length, a great size for an aquatic tortoise. 
Of turtles we have the small Hmydla granosa, seldom attaining to 
a foot in length, Trionyx gangeticus and Ohitra indica, of which 
the last-named attains three feet long, and the former two, and 
probably both measurements are often much exceeded. The 
marine turtles of Sind are Chelonia virgata, the Indian Green Turtle, 
and Cawana olwacea, and enough has been said of them before, 
In the next group, however, we come on an important novelty. 
if Crocodilus porosus does not seem to have been identified here. C. 
