306 Mr. H. Whistler on the [IbiP, 



partly to the difficulty in touring these areas in the hot 

 weather when the river is in flood, and partly to the difficulty 

 of distinguishing S. leucura and S. t. indica in the field. 



Saxicola caprata rossorum Hartert. (6 skins.) 



Although more common in the riverain areas, the Pied Bush- 

 Chat is resident and generally distributed throughout the 

 district. Its numbers are apparently reinforced by an immi- 

 gration about February, and in March the pleasant song and 

 curious courting display are to be heard and seen ; the latter 

 consists of the male flying up into the air with the tail spread 

 widely and the wings flapping slowly, held high about the 

 head. 



Phcenicurus ochrurus phoenicuroides (Moore). (10 skins.) 

 An abundant winter visitor and generally distributed. It 

 arrives in September (earliest dates 12 September, 1918, and 

 13 Septf^mber, 1919) and remains common until well into 

 A]iril ; the latest date on which it \m\s observed was 20 April, 

 1919. 



An albinistic specimen was procured, as recorded in the 

 Journ. Bombay N. H. Soc. xxvi. p. 289. 



Phcenicurus erythronota Eversm. (19 skins.) 



A male was first obtained on 18 February near the town 

 of Shah Jiwana, and a female was shot at Rivaz bridge over 

 the river Chenab, about 10 miles from Shah Jiwana, on 12 

 January, 1919. No others were seen in those two winters, but 

 early in 1920 a great number visited the district. The first 

 two were seen on 1 January, but no more were met with until 

 12 January, after which they were abundant until the end of 

 the month. Two only were seen in February, both on the 

 13th. From my notes it appears that I personally saw some 

 fifty of these Redstarts in all. All the birds were in the area 

 which lies between Jhang and the Shahpur District boundary 

 on both sides of the ('henaW River. They were found for 

 the most part either in the avenues of Kikur-trees which line 

 the canal-banks or in groves of small Kikur-trees, often in 



