Birds of the J helum District. 57 



and the rest of the plumage slightly brighter. 775 is a 

 brighter bird still, and certainly an older bird ; it has a 

 considerable amount of black in the coverts, the dark parts 

 of the tail blacker, and the yellow is of greater extent in 

 both webs. 776 is in juvenile plumage, and has the upper 

 parts greyish green with pale tips to the feathers ; head, 

 neck, and ear-coverts yellowish green ; whole of underparts 

 white with dark median streaks except on chiu and throat. — 



a B. T,'\ 



Only noted as an autumn passage-migrant, arriving towards 

 the end of July and departing by the end of September. 

 Yet the species is recorded from Kohat (Whitehead, ' Ibis,^ 

 1909, p. 131) as a spring and autumn migrant in vast 

 hordes. 



No birds were observed in the district on the spring migra- 

 tion, although when I left on transfer at the middle of April 

 they were about in some numbers as close as Gujrauwala, 

 and in countless flocks in the southern Punjab. 



[8] 8 and 829 are in very worn breeding-plumage ; the 

 others are in full juvenile plumage. — C. B. T.] 



Sturnus humii. The Himalayan Starling. 



877.30.9.1913. Jhelum. Wing 119 mm. 



878,879.1.10.1913. „ „ 116 mm. 



1369. 9.4.1914. „ S- „ 117 mm. 



[The above are probably S. humii ; they have the crown 

 purple - blue, ear-coverts green, mantle purple - bronze, 

 scapulars bronze, rather paler edges to the wings and under 

 wing-coverts, and are marked much more heavily and with 

 larger spots than 5. poltaratskyi and S. vulgaris in similar 

 plumage, so that the belly is nearly white. — C. B. T.'] 



