526 Dr. C. B. Ticehurst on [Ibis, 



Colonel Walton describes this species as very common up 

 to 15,200 ft. in all the country visited and remarks on the 

 large size of his specimens^ one of which, a male, has a wing 

 of 350 mm. 



Biddulph, as qnoted by Sharpe, says : " I think I saw 

 this and the Alpine Chough up to the greatest heights 

 ascended — say, nearly 20,000 ft." 



[Generally distributed. Nest found with half-grown 

 fledglings at Tiuki Dzong, 16 June. Several visited our camp 

 at 20,000 ft., on Mt. Everest in September.— A. F. R. W.] 



Podoces humilis Hume. 



144 S 18.6.21 Chus La 13,500 ft. ; 168 S 26.6.21, 169 ? 

 28.6.21, 192 ? 4.7.21 Tingri 14,000 (t. 



This Ground-Chough was described by Hume from speci- 

 mens obtained by Dr. George Henderson on the Sanju Pass 

 during the first Yarkand Mission. 



At Khamba Dzong, ] 5,200 ft., and various places on the 

 way to Lhasa, Colonel Walton found the Broun Ground- 

 Chough not unconnnon, but confined to bare and itncultivated 

 land. Though this bird has been noticed within a mile of 

 the Kangra Lama Pass, on the frontier between Sikkiin 

 and Tibet, it has not been recorded within the limits of the 

 former country. 



Colonel Steen, I. M.S., found several nests near Gyantse, 

 the egos from which he sent to Dresser. 



[Generally distributed. Nests found in holes in the 

 ground or old mud-walls. Young birds on 18 June and 

 later.— A. F. R. W.] 



XXX.— 77i^ Birds of Sind. (Part i.) By Claud B. 

 TiCEHUKST, M.D., M.A., M.B.O.U., late Capt. R.A.M.C. 



(Plate VIII.) 



From 19 October, 1917, to 14 January, 1920,1 was stationed 

 at Karachi, the City of the Desert, and the port and capital 

 of Sind. My spare time was devoted to ornithology. At 

 first I intended to write merely a local avifauna of the 



