DETAILED LIST OF BIRDS, 
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the expedition returned in October, the majority had disap- 
peared. On both occasions the birds were busy feeding on 
fish, with which, unlike the saline lake into which it runs, 
the stream abounds. \_G. H.'] 
This species is only a winter visitant to Hindostan, where 
it is as common in all large inland pieces of water, at any 
rate in Upper India, as it is along the coast. At the 
Sambhur Lake, the water of which is often nearly saturated 
brine, and where it is difficult to guess what they find to 
eat. Brown-headed Gulls are seen throughout the cold season 
in vast numbers ; they find the water of the lake, however, 
too salt to bathe in, or even drink, and all day long a con- 
stant succession of them may be seen, visiting one or two 
tiny fresh-water ponds near the lake for these purposes. 
The Chagra stream is the first breeding place of this species 
to which we have obtained any clue. I cannot find that 
this species has been observed anywhere west of Sind. In 
Birma it is common. I have it from China, and it may 
possibly be MiddendorFs L. ridibundus var. major (Yogel 
p. 244) from Kamschatka. It seems to be the Asiatic 
representative of the American L. cirrhocephalus, Viellot. 
lA. O. H.] 
981. Xema ridibunda (Linn.). 
Thousands of this species were fishing in the Wuller Lake, 
Kashmir, in November, 1870. [G. H.] 
The lake was not visited by the expedition on its upward 
journey, and it is therefore not known whether this species 
and L, argentatus really breed there, but from other infor- 
mation that I have received, I am inclined to believe that they 
do. \_A. O. H.l, 
984. Hydrochelidon indica (Stephens). 
The Whiskered Tern {H. leucopareia Natt., of most Euro- 
pean writers) was very common *in Kashmir in June. The 
birds were breeding, and many nests were taken, in a marsh 
close to Srinagar, about a mile from the Visitors Reach, and 
on the opposite side of the river. The nests were made of 
