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remote villao"es very ftiw may be met with, as at Dost AUee 

 in Larlchana and Jungree in Karachi Kohistan. It occurs 

 at the Habb River on the Beluchi frontier and in villages in 

 Thar and Parkar. The earliest nestino- I noted wjis in mid- 

 April, and young are on the wing by 29 May, while I have 

 seen it still buildino- on 3 August. Besides the common 

 sites for nests, in Karachi an old Crow's or Kite's nest is 

 frequently made use of ; one which I examined was an old 

 Crow's nest w Inch had been relined by the Mynahs. 



A cinnamon variety came lander notice at Karachi and 

 wherever it went it was mobbed by others of its tribe. Sind 

 birds do not differ in any respect from those from other parts 

 of India. 



Acridotheres ginginianus (Lath.). 



The Bank-Mynah is very much a bird of the Indus valley 

 and canal areas, and is fairly common though somewhat 

 local the whole length of Sind ; Blanford noted it in the 

 villages of the Thar and Parkar district, but at the south- 

 west corner of the province it is only a sporadic visitor in 

 cold weather, and then, I think, only in those years when the 

 monsoon has failed and its wanderings are instigated by 

 consequent shortage of food-supply. Be that as it may, 

 there was no rain in Sind from July 1917 to July l')19, and 

 the cold weather of 1918 was the onl}' time I saw this species 

 in the Karachi neighbourhood, when a flock or two turned 

 up on 10 October and remaineil till 12 April following, 

 frequenting the Sewage Farm and other cultivation. 



Mr. Bell has supplied me with interesting notes on the 

 nesting of this bird. He states that it breeds fairly commonly 

 in the banks of the Indus, in old wells or in even quite low 

 banks a few^ feet high, especially those of excavations for the 

 Persian wheel. He found them building on 18 March and 

 numerous eggs were taken on 1 April ; the complete clutch 

 varieil from four to six. 



The British Museum contains rather a poor series of this 

 common Indian bird, but specimens from Sind, Bombay, 

 Punjab. N.W. Frontier Province, Nepsil, Kumaon, United 



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