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found a nest on tlie 14tli of May containing six fresh eggs. 

 A beautiful songster, singing both on the wing and on the 

 ground. 



[619.] Saxicola capistrata. Tlie White-headed Chat. 



liattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 339 (common in winter at 

 Tliall : many young birds seen at Parachinar in July) ; 

 Marshall, op. cit. xiv. p. 603 (shot one at Sibi, 5000 ft., iu 

 Feb.); Fulton, op. cit. xvi. p. 50 (occurs in Chitral in summer 

 from 7000 to 11,000 ft.); Gumming, t. c. p. 687 (shot one 

 in March: Seistan). 



302. S juv. Parachinar, 5700 ft., 7th July. 



435. ? ad. Banda, 1900 ft., 27th January. 



A cold-weather visitor to the District and very abundant 

 from the third week in August till April, frequenting both 

 desert country and open cultivated lands and especially 

 common by the roadside. In the Kurram Valley it nests 

 freely round Parachinar from 4500 to 6500 feet, but rarely as 

 high as 9000 feet. The nest, a neat grass structure, is usually 

 placed in a hole in the bank of a nullah or under a stone in 

 the nuliah-bed, occasionally in a cairn of stones. The eggs 

 are pale blue, varying a good deal in shade, marked with red 

 spots also varying much in shade and distribution, and average 

 •79 in. X "53 in. The full clutch is five. Two broods at least 

 are reared in the season. 



[620.J Saxicola opistholeuca. Strickland's Chat. 



Fulton, J. B. N. H. S. xvi. p. 50 (the commonest bird in 

 Chitral, moving up or down according to season) ; Ward, 

 op. cit. xvii. p. 480 (migrates through Baltistau). 



433. Ad. Hangu, 2700 ft., 27th December. 



A fairly common cold-weather visitor from September to 

 the middle of April, keeping chiefly to stony ground. It 

 migrates through the Kurram Valley in April. 



[624.] Saxicola cenanthe. The Wheatear. 



Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. 481, & xviii. p. 461 (one 

 shot in Wardwan in Sept. 1907) ; Perreau, t. c. p. 186 

 (occurs iu Chitral, specimen shot). 



702. ? . Kohat, 1768 ft., 18th March. 



