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Lieut. C. II. T. Whitehead on the 
[1504.] Sterna melanogaster. The Black-bellied Tern. 
Cummin^ J. B. N. H. S. xvi. p. 696 (Seistan: not 
common). 
Major Magrath observed tliis species in some irrigated 
fields near Doaba on the 18th of May, 1907. In Bannu he 
says that it is common. 
[1526.] Phalacrocorax carbo. The Common Cormorant. 
Marshall, J. B. N. H. S. xv. p. 354 (Quetta : a few seen 
in March). 
A fairly common bird on the Indus between Khushalgarh 
and Makhud. It also occurs occasionally up the Kohat Toi; 
Capt. Lyall sent me a specimen that he had shot on this 
stream near Hangu. 
[1527.] Phalacrocorax fuscicollis. The Indian Shag. 
Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 347. 
Colonel Rattray shot an example near Tliall in February; 
1898; after a heavy storm in the Kurrarn Valley: it was the 
only one that he saw. We have never met with this species. 
[1544.] Plegadis falcinellus. The Glossy Ibis. 
1. Juv. Kohat; 1760 ft.; 22nd August. 
The only example that we have seen was a bird of the year 
which Mr. Donald shot in his garden on the 22nd of August, 
1905, and sent to Major Magrath, who forwarded the skin 
to the Secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society. 
Mr. Donald flushed another on the grass-farm. 
[1545.] Platalea leucorodia. The Spoonbill. 
Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 347 (Thall: a big flock, at 
the end of May). 
I came across four Spoonbills on the grass-farm on the 
30th of May, 1906. The following year, on the 30th of 
April, Major Magrath and I were standing on the Peiwar 
Kotal (8200 feet) when a flock of about twenty came up 
from the Kurrarn and passed close overhead ; but appa¬ 
rently not relishing the strong north-west wind which met 
them as they topped the Kotal (t. e. pass), they wheeled 
round and flew back down the valley. 
