Excerpt from The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 1888, Vol. 3
The first and most important point as regards the higher vertebrates is that Sind is only a sub-tropical country, and the aquatic birds, in particular, belong largely to the Pal?arctic fauna.
Secondly, we have not here a great river receiving affluents, but one which discharges distributaries, so that spawning fish pushing up stream do not Here leave the Indus, but come to it.
Thirdly, we have to deal with a rainfall so small and uncertain that it is a negligeable quantity. Some researches in which the present writer was concerned went far to support a theory conceived by the chief of Indian meteorologists, viz., that Upper Sind receives no rain from the sea, but only gets its own evaporation partly returned in occasional showers. It is certain that the rainfall has greatly diminished since powerful and settled governments took the bridling of the Indus in hand, and prevented it from forming annually a shallow sea, with vast evaporation.
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