112 Lieut.-Col. C. Swinlioe on the 



Never observed any during the winter ; a few flocks of 

 them were seen by me in the neighbourhood of Kandahar 

 towards the end of March. There were plenty at the Kojak 

 and Quetta in April and May. On dissection the female above 

 referred to was found to have eggs nearly ready for laying; and 

 the testes of all three males were fully developed. 



113. AmaDINA MALABARICA (LiuU.) . 



Two shot by Dr. Duke at Bapin, 5700 feet above the sea- 

 level in North Beloochistan in the month of July. 



114. Passer DOMESTicus (Linn.). 



Kandahar, 2 S , 6.4.81 ; 2^, 8,4,81 ; \ ^ , 9,4,81 ; 4 c? 3 ? , 

 16,4,81. 



A summer visitor; commences breeding immediately after 

 arrival, and goes away again in August. I most carefully 

 looked for this Sparrow on first entering the country, being 

 anxious to note the differences in comparison with the Indian 

 bird ; but from the date of my arrival at Quetta on the 26th 

 August until the 6th April following, when I got the first 

 bird, I never saAV one, the only Sparrow I met with between 

 those dates being P. montanus, which is the common House- 

 Sparrow of South Afghanistan. I never saw a Domestic 

 Sparrow in the city of Kandahar ; but when we left they had 

 only lately arrived, and were still in large flocks in the fields 

 and had not commenced pairing. When I returned to Quetta 

 in May there were several pairs nesting in the verandah of 

 my house in company with P. montanus. But P. domesticus, 

 in South Afghanistan at all events, although it builds in the 

 same roof with P. montanus, does not associate with the latter. 

 It always keeps out of the way of the Tree-Sparrow, who 

 never loses an opportunity of attacking it, whereas with the 

 Willow- Sparrow it is quite friendly, and when feeding they 

 are often found in company. In the flocks the Tree-Sparrows 

 were always by themselves, I never observed a Domestic Spar- 

 row feeding in their company, nor a Tree-Sparrow in a flock 

 of Domestic Sparrows, whereas, if you fired into a flock of the 

 latter when feeding in the fields, you always found a number 

 of Willow-Sparrows Avith them. I once saw an Afghan boy 



