('}16 i)r. C. B. Ticoliurst on [ibis*, 



Sehwaii in November. Butler records that it occurs 

 occasionally in Lower Sind but is decidedly uncommon ; he 

 had seen specimens from Karachi, Hyderabad, and the Eastern 

 Narra ; there is a specimen in the Karachi Museum from 

 Jhimpir. Orioles of any kind are evidently quite rare in 

 Sind, and if it breeds it must be in the better wooded and 

 cultivated parts of the province. The Indian Oriole is 

 recorded once only in Cutch. 



Pastor roseus (L.). " Bya." 



The Rosy Pastor is a common winter visitor, very 

 common in Lower Sind, less so in Upper Sind where it is 

 chiefly perhaps a passage migrant. It is the earliest of all 

 the winter birds to arrive and the last, except for some 

 Waders, to leave. The first arrivals may be looked for 

 between 13 and 21 July ; it leaves Lower Sind regularly 

 about 6 May, a week later it has gone from Upper Sind ; it 

 is thus absent a bare two months. From Sind it passes 

 through the Quetta valley in mid-May and again early in 

 August, and the same is recorded for southern Afghanistan ; 

 others pass out of India through the valleys of the North 

 West Frontier Province. On the Mekran coast Mr. Gum- 

 ming tells me few may be seen on passage, and many pass 

 through mid-Beluchistan. Farther west Dr. Aitcheson met 

 with vast flocks in April near the north-east Pcrso-Afghan 

 frontier ; farther west still, Mr. Woosnam noted it at the 

 end of May at Burujird in north-west Persia, and its 

 migration route lies north of the Mesopotamian plain to 

 reach Syria, where Tristram saw flocks at Larissa going 

 westward ; it breeds in Asia Minor. Thus we have in this 

 remarkable westerly movement a migration almost without 

 parallel, though rather similar to that of the Black-headeil 

 Banting, among Indian birds. 



That the Pastor is only absent for two months is not so 

 very remarkable, as many Waders which go farther still 

 afield to breed, are hardly absent longer. 



The first Pastors to arrive are the adult males, and it is 

 not until the end of the first week in August that the adult 



