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fidelity, and shortly I had the satisfaction of landing them both. 
“ The villagers who collected to see the birds gave the local 
name as “penr’ (pronounced with a nasal z), and told me 
that the birds came there occasionally oncein every three or 
fours years.” 
I may here notice that in other parts of Upper India this 
name “ fenr” is usually applied to Pelicans. 
In the cold weather of 1871-72, Dr. Stoliczka, when in Cutch, 
thought he saw Swans there. He says, J. A. S., B., 1872, 229 :— 
“While crossing the Runn from Kachh to Pachain early in 
November (1871), I noticed several Swans, but at too great a 
distance for it to be possible to form an idea as to the species 
the birds belonged to.” 
Until recently I had always considered (S. F., IV., 33) that 
Stoliczka, being very short-sighted, had mistaken Pelicans 
(the white P. crzspus abounds there) for Swans; but the recent 
occurrence of Swans in Sind renders it not improbable that 
Stoliczka was right after all, and if so they would almost cer- 
tainly have belonged to the present species. | 
Between 1872 and 1876 I received notices of Swans being 
killed on three occasions, on the Swat and Kabul Rivers,in the 
Peshawer District and in Kohat near one of our salt mines, in 
November, January and February. In one case a pair, in 
another three, and in the last case five, were seen, one being 
shot in each case, but none preserved. All would seem, from 
what was noted of the tails and colours of the bill, to have been 
olor. 
During the cold season of 1877-78 Swans were numerous in 
the far North-West. One was killed near Attock on the 17th 
of January by Lt. Hill, of the Rifle Brigade, and I heard of 
two others being killed in the Peshawer District in February, 
and of many others being seen. 
On the 12th of February, Mr. H. E. Watson killed three 
Swans in the Sehwan District in Sind. 
He first saw birds of this species in January, at the Manchhar 
Lake, and later saw five, and actually procured three, in a small 
broad in the same district. He writes :-— 
“I shot three Swans this morning. As far as I can judge 
they are identical with the English species” (that is the tame 
Swan) ; “there were five on a small ‘dhand’ or tank, about half 
a mile or less in length by a quarter of a mile or less in breadth. 
I went to shoot Ducks, but seeing these large white birds, I went 
after them and recognized them to be the same as those I had 
seen on the Manchhar. They let a boat get pretty close and 
I shot one. The other four flew round the tank a few times 
and then settled on it again. I went up in the boat and fired 
again, but without effect. They flew round and then settled 
again. The third time I shot another; the three remaining 
again flew round and settled, and the fourth time I fired I did 
