of Southern Afghanistan and Keldt. 161 



68. MUSCICAPA GRISOLA, Liiin. 



Common during tlic spring and autumn migrations. I 

 found it very numerous on the KliAvaja Amran in September. 



69. Erythrosterna parva (Beclist.). 

 Common everywhere in suitable localities. 



70. Myiophoneus temmincki (Vig.). 



I obtained a single specimen of this bird in March 1879, 

 Col. Swinhoe got a second, and we saw it on one or two 

 other occasions. It has not been procured further south or 

 in Sind, and must therefore be a straggler from the north. 



71. MoNTicoLA CYANus (Linu.). 



Common all over the province in the colder weather, but less 

 so in summer, for, though a few pairs breed, the majority, no 

 doubt, go to the higher mountains of Central Afghanistan 

 for that purpose. Mr. Seebohm remarks of two specimens 

 shot in September 1881 on the Khwaja Amran, that they 

 are thorough-bred, without any admixture of M. solitarius. 



72. MoNTICOLA SAXATILIS (LiuU.). 



A single specimen was sent to Mr. Hume from Quetta in 

 1876, and my last batch of skins to him contained a good 

 series. Neither Colonel Swinhoe nor I obtained it in 

 Kandahar, and Mr. Barnes did not procure it at Chaman, 

 though I found it abundant on the hills above that place in 

 September 1881. I got one specimen in the Amadun valley 

 (6500 feet) in June, so that it must breed in our province. 

 Young birds swarm about Quetta in the autumn. I used to 

 kill three or four every morning last year to feed a couple of 

 young foxes. They disappear in the winter, and must, I 

 suppose, spend it in Southern Baluchistan, though Blanford 

 and I did not obtain the bird in our journey through that 

 country in the spring of 1872 till we reached the highlands. 



73. Merula maxima, Seebohm. 



Common about Kandahar, but does not extend further 

 south. 



The wing in two specimens, one male and one female, 5;^ 

 inches, and in a second female 5. These correspond exactly 



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