908 JOURNAL, BOMBA Y NA TUBAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



"(618) Saxicola jncata—{l!k^ Pied-Chat.) 

 Arrived mid-April. Common. Breeds in the country about 5,000 feet upwards. 



(619) Saxicola capistrata — (The White-headed Chat.) 



Not recorded by me, though I am not at all sure that I did not see it putting 

 it down as a variety of S. picata. Fulton records it : — 



"I obtained specimens at elevations of 7,0(i0 to 11,000 feet during May, June 

 and July. In May I found a nest at 7,500 feet at the foot of a small shrub." 



(620) Saxicola opixtholeuca — (Strickland's Chat.) 



By far the commonest Chat. First seen late in March, large numbers arrived 

 early in April, scattered in early May, began to collect again with their youn^ 

 early in October. Bred from 5.000 up. many along the banks of the main river. 

 The cock of my "mixed marriage" belonged to this species. The hen, I am 

 nearly sure, belonged to <S. picata. The hens of this species are very 

 much darker than and easily distinguishable at sight from those ot picata. 

 Nests with young were common early in June. 



\621) Saxicola pleschanka — (The Siberian Chat.) 



Arrives a trifle earlier and is not so common, otherwise the remarks concern- 

 ing opislholeuca apply also to this chat. 



"*(624) Saxicola ananthe — (The Wheateak Chat.) 



Not common. First seen 2nd April. One pair nested on the Lower Drosh 

 farm about 4,200 feet. 



'(628) Saxicola chrijsopygia — (The Red^tailed Chat,) 



Rare, only a few seen in January and early February, near Drosh by the 

 river on a waste stretch about 4,300 feet. 



(6.30) Henicurus maculatus—(T bk Western Spotted Forktail.) 



Common on side streams, down to 4,000 feet in winter and a bit higher in 

 summer. Breeds about 5,000 feet upwards. 



(637) Microciehla scouleri—(TnE Little Forktail.) 



Common in winter down to 4,000 feet on side streams. Disappeared from 

 mid-AprU till early in September. The Drosh Fort pair hung about till the end 

 of June, when they too vanished after giving us false hopes of finding the nest. 

 I have frequently seen them (in Chitral and elsewhere) plunge into the water ; 

 in fact. I think, they get most of their food in this way. They always go up 

 stream and apparently run along the bottom perhaps aided a bit by their 

 wings, which seem to be kept half -open. I have seen them go up a steepieh 

 rock half-a-dozen times in about as many minutes, resting a little at the top 

 and then flying to the bottom for another trip up, the water little more than 

 covering the bird, but coming down with a force which, one would think, 

 would render successful ascent on the apparently slippery surface impossible. 

 I have seen them plunge but not so often in deeper and stiller water. They are 

 "not Shy birds to start with, and, by only advancing when they are under water, 

 one can get quite close, Fulton states that he never saw them plunge, and 

 that they seemed to stick more to scrub, seldom being near the water like B . 

 maculaius. My subsequent trapping experiences give the explanation of this, 



