THE IBIS. 



ELEVENTH SERIES. 



Vol. IV. No. 3. JULY 1922. 



XXIII. — The Birds of Jhang District, S,W. Punjab. 

 Part II. Non- Passerine Birds. By Hugh Whistler, 

 F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Indian Police *. 



Micropus affinis (Gray). (2 skins.) 



A common and generally distributed species, met with 

 throughout the year in varying numbers ; one month it will 

 not be seen at all, another time it is general and common, 

 and at another tin)e scarce and local ; but such fluctuations 

 are quite erratic, and are doubtless duo not to migration, but 

 to questions ofc' the food-supply. It is a bird of towns and 

 villages, breeding in the house-roofs and hawking above 

 them, but I found a large colony of old nests in the small 

 hills about Yakkuwala. 



Micropus melba (L.). 



Two Alpine Swifts were seen hawking above the Civil 

 lines on the evening of 25 August, 1919. 



Caprinmlgus europaeus unwini Hume. (3 skins.) 



Nightjars are scarce in tlie district ; single birds of this 



species were shot at Kot Lakhlana on 27 September, 1918, 



at Jhang on 3 May, 1919, and at Chund on 20 August, 1919. 



* Continued from p. 309. For map, see Text-fi<jiire 9, p. 260. 

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