THE BIRDS OF SOUTH GUJERAT. 1 9& 



558. Phylloscopus lugubris (Blyth). — Not in Butler's list, but I shot 

 one out of a flock of five near Baroda Race-course, 17th September 

 1885 ; and Mr. Barnes says " very rare winter visitant to the Deccan," 

 which give us two landmarks on its line of migration. 



bS2ii>s. Sylvia miniiscula*\ Neither in Butler's list; both in 



582. - S.althea ) Murray's Verteb. Zool. of Synd. 



560. Phylloscopus viridanus (Blyth). — Not in Butler's list. Shot 

 one at Pattra, near Dohad, Panch Mahals, 14th April 1886. Merely 

 a cold-weather visitant to the Deccan " (Barnes). 



631. See previous paper, Journal No. II. 



647. Machlolophus xanlliogenys (Vigors). — Not in Butler's list. 

 Mr. Doig shot a male in a mango grove at Jhalod, Panch Mahals, 

 21st April 1 886, evidently breeding or about to breed ; and we saw a pair 

 at that a bird paradise" Saran,* near Dungarpur, about ten days later. 



674. Dendrocitta rufa (Lath.). — To my previous paper (Journal 

 No. II.) let me add regarding this bird that I counted twenty- 

 three (23) of them fly out of one tree at Kadana on the banks of the 

 River Mahi, Panch Mahals, 28th April 1886, and found them very 

 common in the jungles between Dohad and Khairv\arraat that time. 



Serinus pectoralis (Murray), sp. nov. — Not in Butler's list. (See 

 Verteb. Zool. of Sind, 193, as also p. 201 for 784, Palumbus casiotis.) 



765. Spizcdavda rfem(Sykes). — Not in Butler's list ; but this is the 

 commoner sort about Baroda, and S. malabarica the rarer. 



805 & 306. Cyo/nis ticlcelli (Blyth). — Common in secluded spots, 

 near water, throughout Gujerat, though not recorded from, that district 

 by Major Butler. 



839. Sypheotides aurita (Lath.). — Have found it breeding about 

 Baroda at the following dates : — 19th August 1885. — Two eggs, and 

 a third, a bright green colour, extracted 21st September 1885. — 



c There is a stream from a spring hero, with overhanging treee, and not 

 another drop of, water for miles around. The little stream is only abc ut 5 yards 

 broad, and after a course of 300 yards or sodisappeaisin the sand; but I noted 

 in my diary at the time the following birds in that one little oasis : — Green 

 Barbets (inornata), Coppersmith?, Common and White-bellied Drongos, Dovep, 

 Green Pigetms, Nuthatches (250), T ckell's Blue Rsdbreast, Titmice (Grey and 

 Yellow-cheeked), Oiioles, Koels, Crows, Sparrow-hawk (on nest, three eggs), 

 Owlets (.4. radiata, Scops bakhamuna), Paradise and Fantail Flycatchers, 

 Kingfishers (P. gurial, C. rudis, H. smyrnntis, and A. bengalensiti), Wood- 

 peckers (Aurantius and Mahrattensis), Common Sand-pipers, Lapwings, Painted 

 Smd-grouse, common Mynahs, Whit^-tbroated, Hodgson's and Stewait's Wnn- 

 warblers, Tret -pies, Common and Yellow-throated Sparrows, Bulbuls (462), 

 Brahminy Myuahs, Fish owls (K. ceylonensis), Ores- ted Tree-swifts, Created 

 Honey bnzzards, Babblers, seven large Grey Cuckoo-shiikes, Magpie R >bins, 

 Green Bittern, Rose lioged and Rose-headed Parrakcets, Mottled WolcI owl, 

 Indian .Nightjar — what a choir ! 



