114 Lieut.-Col. C. Swinhoe on the 



121. Emberiza sch(enicola, Linn. 

 Kandahar, 1 ? , 8,2,81. 



A wintei" visitor. 



122. EUSPIZA MELANOCEPHALA (ScOp.) . 



Melkarez, 1 ?, 24,4,81. 



Also one male, marked Quetta, one female, marked Nal, 

 shot by Dr. Duke ; date not given. 



123. EuspiZA LUTEOLA (Sparrm.). 



Mundi Hissar, 1 c? , 2 ? , 22,4,81 ; Abdul Rahura, 1 ? , 

 23,4,81 ; Chaman, 1 ^ , 28,4,81 ; Kush die Khan, 1 S , 

 2,5,81. 



Numbers found feeding in the wood in the early morning, 

 and perched during the day on the mud walls of the forts at 

 the halting-posts ; had evidently only lately arrived. 



124. BUCANETES GITHAGINEA (Licllt.). 



Kandahar, 1 ?, 3,2,81. 

 The only specimen obtained. 



125. Erythrospiza obsoleta (Licht.). 



Kandahar, 1$, -12,80; Do., I <$ , 23,1,81; Do., 1^^, 

 2,2,81; Do., Ic^, 30,3,81; Do., IS, 31,3,81; Do., l^, 

 1,4,81. 



Common in the gardens in the neighbourhood of Kandahar 

 throughout the year. I tried to bring home two males and 

 a female alive ; but the great heat in the Bolan in the month 

 of May killed them. Not observed later than 1st April. 

 Seen nowhere east of Kandahar. 



126. Carpodacus erythrinus (Pall.). 



Kandahar, 2 c? , 1 ? , 9,4,81 ; Do., 1 S , 12,4,81 ; Do., 1 S > 

 14,4,81 ; Syed Yarroo, 1 ? , 3,5,81. 



I saw two of these birds at Quetta at the latter end of 

 August, in the garden of my house. First flock was seen in 

 a garden near Kandahar on the 9th April. The last bird 

 noted above was caught alive in a most extraordinary manner 

 by one of my native escort, who crept up to and caught it in 

 his naked hand while it was feeding in some long grass where 

 we were resting on our march to Syed Yarroo. 



