Birds of Ko hat and Kurram. 239 



in winter and temporarily disappearing in severe weather. 

 A summer visitor to tlie Kurram Valley in small numbers. 

 Major Magrath has found this highly migratory species 

 to 1)6 resident even in the hot plains of Bannu (1200 ft.) 

 {vide 'Yield,' March 28th, 1908). 



[818.] HiRUNDO sMiTHi. The Wirc-tailcd S wallow. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 341 (common) ; Ward, 

 op. cit. xvii. p. 483 (summer visitor : Kashmir). 



A summer visitor and abundant from April till October, 

 the first birds arriving in the middle of March. 



Occurs in the Kurram Valley up to GOOO feet, but only in 

 small numbers. 



[822.] HiRUNDO NEPALENsis. Hodgsou's Striated 

 Swallow. 



Marshall, J. R. N. H. S. xiv. p. 605 (summer visitor: 

 Quetta) ; Rattray, op. cit. xvi. p. 659 (nests freely in the 

 Galis). 



Numbers pass up the Miranzai Valley in the first half of 

 April. I shot an example at Hangu on the 9th, and found 

 a retort-shaped nest under a bridge close by, though whether 

 it belonged to this species or the next I did not discover, as 

 I was only passing through. 



[823.] HiRUNDO ERYTHROPYGiA. Sykes^s Striated 

 Swallow. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 341 (great numbers passed 

 through Thall in the middle of May). 



A small party of these Swallows arrived on the Samana 

 towards the end of March 1907. On the 4th of April I shot 

 one, the beak and part of the forehead of which were plastered 

 with mud ; it had evidently started nesting-operations. 



[826.] MoTAciLLA ALBA. The White Wagtail. 



Marshall, J. B. N. H. S. xiv. p. 605 (Quetta: common in 

 winter) ; Fulton, op. cit. xvi. p. 55 (Chitral : resident from 

 4000 to 10,000 ft., according to season) ; Ward, op. cit. xvii. 

 p. 723 (rare in Kashmir), 



Large numbers arrive in Kohat early in September, and a 

 few stay though the winter; the majority pass on and return 



