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the young have to be fed. The majority appear to breed 

 in immature plumage — only two were observed in the glossy 

 black dress with orange bill ol:' the adult. I have sent a 

 nestling and a bird of the year during its first moult to 

 the British Museum. 



[812.] Ptyonoprogne obsoleta. 



Common in March in the craggy hills of South Kohat. 

 A few individuals wxre in pairs, so the bird may po&sibly 

 breed there. 



[838.] MOTACILLA CITREOLOIDES. 



I can confirm my note about the nesting of this species 

 in immature plumage. This year I was in its breeding- 

 grounds a month earlier and came across a good many nests. 

 Only about half of those breeding were iu full plumage. 

 The remainder were of two forms : — 



(1) Grey above, with black feathers here and there; 

 supercilium and under surface yellowish-white. 



(2) Dark grey above with some black feathers ; head and 

 under surface deep yellow, sullied on the flanks and crown. 



I have sent two examples, namely a nesting pair, the male 

 of type (2) and the female of type (1), to the British Museum. 



[851.] Anthus spipoletta. 



In my list {' Ibis,' 1909, p. 244) under No. [851] appears 

 an enumeration of six specimens under the name Anthus 

 spipoletta and of three under Anthus coutellii ; under the 

 latter name, however, two specimens (Nos. 646 and 647) are 

 mentioned again, though they had appeared already as 

 Anthus spipoletta. Dr. Hartert has kindly examined these 

 Pipits for me, and he informs me that, in his opixiion, they 

 belong neither to typical A. spipoletta nor to A. coutellii, but 

 to the Central Asiatic form which he calls Anthus spinoletia 

 blakistoni {cf. Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauna, i. p. 282). As to 

 numbers 622, 632, and 636, he is quite sure that they are 

 typical A. blakistoni, while Nos. 387 and 568 are too much 

 worn and too dirty to be named with certainty, but there is 

 no reason whatever to doubt their belonging to A, blakistoni 



