as the old ones - Returned to camp at 2 P.M., saw a number of sand grouse and ten pairs of me flock of about 15. at all time camps since the first one after leaving Moga have seen many eagles and ravens. The former are very tame and sat on a telephone pole work until me is within a few yards of them. The ravens are known as the "Mogla's Coffin" because they feed often on dead moglas - They are huge fellows with a brown crest which stands much like "corax". One day on the plain the Lama oil found a dead mogla partly eaten. He was lying beside the remains of an open argol fire and I wondered whether the man had died alone or had been left there by the survivors of a squad which had been moved away. This custom of leaving the dead on the plains to be eaten by wolves, dogs or ravens is one of the most extra- ordinary customs of natives seen where that I have seen them. The body is con-sidered unclean, once life has departed, and no mogla will touch a dead man's corpse or its remains unless it is absolutely decomposed. Were it known that I had packed away among my collections the 17 Mogla skulls which I first obtained when we first came to Moga I would be driven from