LEG BOMBAY NATURAI HISTORY SOCIETY, 
a single duck or coot to be seen on the surface. This seems strange, 
as on other tanks, where muggers also live, I have seen plenty. 
One early morning a long single rank of Pelican flew over, doubt- 
less Pelicanus javanicus; there were a great number of them. This 
is the only occasion on which I saw a pelican of any species, except 
ouce, when I saw a solitary individual of the above. 
Tern were numerous. The only specimen I shot was the Whiskered 
Tern (Lydrochelidon hybrida). Ido not remember seeing many 
Gulls proper. 
I did not notice any Spoonbills until December; I do not know 
whether it is well known what.a good bird it is for the table; its 
method of feeding is peculiar, advancing rapidly and moving: its 
bill from side to side, in fact zig-zag. 
A female Florican was shot in November, and I saw another 
during December. 
I see that Barnes in his “ Birds of Bombay” gives as the common 
name for the Common Crane Kullum, and for the Demoiselle Crane 
Karonch, which I presume is the same as Koong; in Sind the con- 
trary was the case, 
Our last day’s duck-shooting was on the 18th February, when the 
majority seemed to have acquired that strong flavour called “ fishy,”’ 
on which account we did not go after them any more, as it would 
have been useless slaughter. 
I did not examine every Snipe we shot, but I did a good number, 
and did not come across a single Pintail. 
Flamingo were very common near Dungarwa; on one large tank 
[ think their numbers might be reckoned by thousands, and from a 
httle distance, when they were all on the wing together, their white 
plumage made it a most beantiful sight: all I saw were Pheenicop- 
terus antiquorum. 
from birds to beasts. I believe that Ahmedabad District has been 
famous for the number of avtelope. Last year two French gentlemen 
destroyed a great number, over a hundred they say, with the result 
that in places where last year were hundreds, there now are hardly 
any, and none with any heads worth obtaining. In January I 
was in the neighbourhood of Parantij and Sonasan, a well-known 
locality for buck. I saw one with six inch horns and a doe. The 
number of snipe, &c., also shot by the above two sportsmen (?) was 
enormous and useless. They arrived in the country with the highest 
introductions, and the District Officers were requested to do all 
