164 Lt.-Col. Sir O. B. St. John o?i the Birds 



90. Saxicola MONTANA^ Gould. 



In the month of September 1881 I shot on the Khwaja 

 Amran three male Stonecliats, which pnzzled me, and I took 

 them to England for identification. Mr. Seebohm kindly 

 examined them for me, and pronounced two of them to be 

 representatives of the extreme forms of S. deserfi and S. 

 montana, the third being intermediate between them. The 

 S. montana form appears rare. Col. Swinhoe got one speci- 

 men at Kandahar, but Mr. Barnes did not observe it at 

 Cham an. 



91. Saxicola morio (Hempr. & Ehr.). 



Abundant on its w^ay to and from its summer-quarters. I 

 find that I noted its occurrence in large numbers in Pishin 

 towards the end of September, and that I shot several speci- 

 mens in Kandahar from March 2nd onwards. Col. Swinhoe 

 is therefore mistaken in supposing it is a summer visitant 

 only, as he is also in giving S. melanohuca on my authority 

 (Ibis, 1888, p. 107) . In December 1878 I shot a Stonechat in 

 Quetta, Avhich Mr. Hume doubtfully refers to S. stapazina ; 

 but as this species has not before been obtained further east 

 than Shiraz, 15° to the west, where I got three specimens, I 

 do not like to include it in the present list. Mr. Barnes 

 notes [' Stray Feathers,' ix. p. 454) that *S. monacha is very 

 rare at Chaman. It is certainly found in Sind and on the 

 Mekran coast, but has not been obtained by any other ob- 

 server in our province, and I cannot help thinking that he must 

 have mistaken S. morio for S. monacha. The former, which 

 he does not mention, is certainly found about Chaman in 

 spring and autumn. 



92. Aedon familiaris (Menetries). 



Tolerably common in summer in suitable localities. 



93. EUTICILLA RUFIVENTRIS (Vicill.) . 



94. KCTICILLA ERYTHROXOTA (Evcrsm.). 



These, the only two Redstarts obtained, are both verv 

 numerous in winter, the latter particularly so. 



95. Cyanecula suEciCA (Linn.). 

 (!!ommon all over the province in summer. 



