343 

 LOCAL BIRD- MIGRATION IN INDIA. 



BY 



D. Dewar, i.c.s. 



On page 520 of Vol. XVII of the Journal of this Society 1 

 drew attention to the fact that the Common Bee-eater was only a 

 summer visitor to Lahore. I am now in a position to name other 

 birds which are stated in most ornithological text books to be 

 permanent residents, but which, so far as Lahore and its vicinity is 

 concerned, are merely summer visitors ; every spring they come to 

 Lahore to breed and then leave the place. The following is, 1 

 believe, a complete list: — 



Oriolus kundoo. — The Indian Oriole. 



Terpsiphone parodist. — The Indian Paradise Flycatcher. 



Gymnorhis jlavicollis. — The Yellow-throated Sparrow. 



Arachnechthra asiaiica. — The Purple Sun-bird. 



Merops viridis. — The Common Indian Bee-eater. 



Merops philipphus. — The Blue-tailed Bee-eater. 



Eudynamis honor at a. — The Indian Koel. 



(E aopopelia tranquebarica. — The Red Turtle-Dove. 



Nycticorax grisens. — The Night Heron. 



(518) The Indian Oriole (Oriolus kundoo). — Oates writes of this 

 (Birds, Fauna of Brit. Ind., Vol. I., p. 505): — "A permanent resident 

 in the plains and lower ranges of the Himalayas, and a summer visitor 

 to Kashmir and the higher ranges. It extends into Afghanistan and 

 Turkestan, but visits the latter country only in summer." 



Barnes states that it is a permanent resident in the Bombay 

 Presidency. Writing of Lucknow, Jesse says : — " The Indian Oriole 

 though a permanent resident is very scarce during the winter 

 months, when curiously its place is to some extent taken by 0. 

 melanocephalvs. It becomes common about May." This species does 

 not appear to extend so far west as Calcutta. In my list of the Birds 

 of Madras I wrote (B. N. H. S. Journal, Vol. XVI., p. 488), " not 

 often seen in Madras during the hot weather, but it is fairly common 

 in the winter. It would seem . . . that this species does not nest 

 in Madras." In Lahore it is abundant in the hot weather. I have 

 come across many nests, and in each case a King-crow's nest has been 



