THE BIRDS OF SOUTH GUJERAT. 107 



" Mount Abu, rare, occurring only as a straggler." This leads me to 

 remark that Major Butler does not appear to have fully worked out 

 these species, that keep along rivers such as are more common in South 

 than in North Gujerat. This species is common enough, and breeds 

 along the Mahi from the mouth nearly to the source ; it has to keep 

 to the larger rivers during the breeding season (May), leaving them 

 for the meadows during the rains. 



124. Coracias garrula (Lin.). — Butler says " Sind ; seasonal 

 visitant ; not common." Mr. Doig notes in my copy of Barnes : 

 " very common in Gujerat, the Ahmedabad districts, in August and 

 September, and again in February ;" and I saw two at Goblej, near 

 Khaira, September 27th, 1886. 



127. Pelargopsis gurial (Pears.).- — The Stork-billed Kingfisher is 

 not recorded by Butler ; but we found it along the Mahi in the Panch 

 Mahals (and see my paper in No. II. of this Journal). 



147. Palaeornis eupairia (Lin.). — Butler refers to one Sind speci- 

 men of doubtful authority. Mr. Murray (in Epist.) says " this was 

 undoubtedly a cage-bird escaped ; tail feathers much abraded." 



164. Yungipicus nanus (Vig.). — " Mount Abu, rare," says Major 

 Butler. Mr. Doig saw a pair, and shot a male near Ganji, Dungar- 

 pur, Meywar, 4th May 1886. It measured only 4| inches in length. 



193fo's. Megalwma inornata (Wald.). — Common in the jungles of 

 the Panch Mahals and at Pavagarh. 



238. Dicaeum minimum (Tick.). 



240. Piprisoma agile (Tick.). — Neither of these little flower-peckers 

 is in Major Butler's list ; they are both permanent residents about 

 Baroda. 



250. Sitla castaneiventris (Frankl.). — Not in Major Butler's list. 

 I shot a pair at Saran, Dungarpur, Meywar, and saw two others there 

 5th May 1886. They did not appear to be breeding then. 



268. Volvocivora syTcesii (Strickl.).»-Major Butler records from 

 " Abu and the low hills east of Deesa; rare." It goes east after the 

 rains, and I saw it not unfrequently in the Panch Mahals in May, 

 doubtless on its way west to breed, which it does about Baroda. 



285. Dissemurus paradiseus (Lin.). — Not in Major Butler's list, 

 but *' breeds in the east of Godhra, and therefore probably throughout 

 the Panch Mahals'* (J. Davidson, Esq., c.s., in Epist.) 



293. Lmcocerca leucogaster (Cuv.), which Major Butler only records 

 from Abu, breeds at Baroda also, through rarely, L. aureola being 

 by far the commoner species. 



