. Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies . ked like Sterna fluviatilis% was seen by meon 23rd August, evidently passing through on its way south. 248.—Hydrochelidon nigra, Lin. (984 ter). Since my leaving Grilgit, Dr. Scully writes that he hassecured five specimens, which he believes to belong to thisspecies or to H. leucoptera. The measurements vary from 82to 9 inches in the wing, and from 0*74 to 0*9 in the tarsus. 249.—Graculus§ carbo, Lin. (1005). Several times I have seen a Cormorant which I assign tothis species; but I have never secured a specimen. On 12th
. Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies . ked like Sterna fluviatilis% was seen by meon 23rd August, evidently passing through on its way south. 248.—Hydrochelidon nigra, Lin. (984 ter). Since my leaving Grilgit, Dr. Scully writes that he hassecured five specimens, which he believes to belong to thisspecies or to H. leucoptera. The measurements vary from 82to 9 inches in the wing, and from 0*74 to 0*9 in the tarsus. 249.—Graculus§ carbo, Lin. (1005). Several times I have seen a Cormorant which I assign tothis species; but I have never secured a specimen. On 12thSeptember 1 saw a flock of five in the Sai valley. * [The specimen described is of course a quite immature bird. Adults are describedunder the name of L. argentatus, S. F., I., 270.—A. O. H.] f [Not impossibly this specimen was one of H. nigra, of which the bill is blackand. the feet dark brown with a red tinge.—A. O. H.] J [This was almost certainly Sterna tibetana.—A. O. H.] § [Must stand, I think, as Phalacrocorax carbo.—A. O. H.] STRAY FEATHERS VOL IX. 367 31 SfetattM dfatatop* of ifa $}irfte nfl the §mmx and$ont\x JjRaltratia (tantrg. By Capt. E. A. Butler, E. 83nZ Regt. I desire to reproduce in a somewhat modified, and, I hope,improved form, in Stray Feathers (where it will be moregenerally available to ornithologists), a paper in which (at therequest of the compiler of the Bombay Gazetteer) I endeavouredto give as complete a list as possible of the birds of thesouthern portion of the Bombay Presidency. Roughly speaking the region to which this paper refers maybe said to extend as far north as Nagar iu about Latitude 19p ;south, as far as Goa, Latitude 16p ; east to Sholapur aboutLongitude 76° ; and west to Bombay or Longitude 73Q. It includes the following districts which have been moreor less Ornithologically explored*:— Northern Deecan.—Nagar, Poona, Deecan.—Satara and —Savantvadi, Ratnagiri and Bombay (in pa
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