612 t)r. 0. B. Tioehuvst on [Ibis, 



Tn Bull. B. 0. C. xli. p. 56, I separated the north-west 

 Indian bird as palliduSf from the paler grey of the upper parts 

 and ear-coverts as compared with the southern Indian 

 bird ; it extends to Jodhpur, Mt. Aboo (Rajputana) south to 

 Khandeish, Punjab to Simla, Ambala and western United 

 Provinces : the typical race is found in Madras, eastern Central 

 Provinces, Bchar^ Bengal, Nepal, Upper and Lower Burma. 



Pericrocotus brevirostris brevirostris (Vig.). 



The Short-billed Minivet is a straggler in winter from 

 the Himalaya. Murray first recorded it from Laki in 

 December 1877. Mr. Bell says he saw a pair in the Abad 

 Forest (15 m. north of Sukkur) on 8 February, and 

 on 8 December, 1918 I obtained a single female in the 

 high tamarisk forest of Bindi Dhareja just north of that 

 town. Mr. Ludlow informs me he has once seen it at 

 Midir near Karachi. Fairly common in the southern Punjab, 

 it may be commoner in Upper Sind than these records 

 indicate. 



i\Ir. Stuart Baker correctly points out (Journal Bombay 

 N.H.S. xxvii. p. 695 footnote) that Mr, Bangs has erroneously 

 fixed the type-locality of the typical race in the eastern 

 Himalaya ; it should, of course, be in the western part of the 

 range : thus the needless synonym favillaceus has been 

 created. 



Pericrocotus roseus roseus (Vieill.). 



On 11 December, 1919, 1 shot a female Rosy Minivet at the 

 Karachi Sewage Farm ; it was with two others, also in 

 female dress, and they were constantly being bullied by a 

 male P. peregrinus. I at first mistook my bird for an 

 immature female brevirostris, but in the hand it is easily 

 distinguished by the shorter wing, larger bill, whiter under- 

 parts, and in lacking the yellow on the forehead and rum]). 



The occurrence of this Minivet in Sind and its south- 

 w^estern corner is not a little remarkable. There are but 

 few records of it from the plains of India at all, and Mr. 

 Whistler tells me he lias only three records from the foot-hills 



