624: Dr. C. B. Ticehurst on [Ibis, 



Provinces, and Behar are all similar: four birds from Bhutan 

 are considerably darker than these on the upper parts, but 

 as the colour tone varies much vi^ith wear, in the absence 

 of a good series in fresh plumage I hesitate to recognize 

 any races. Latham's type was said to come from "in regno 

 ginginiano," but the species does not occur so far south 

 {i.e. nr. Pondicherry). 



I have a note that two specimens of ^iEthiopsar fuscus 

 in the Bombay Museum were said to have come from Kotri ; 

 this must have been a mistake as this bird is certainly not 

 found in Sind nor is it known from the Lower Punjab, 

 Jodhpur, Mt. Aboo, or Cutch. 



Muscicapa striata neumanni Poche. 



The Spotted Flycatcher is a passage migrant through Sind 

 and usually turns up about the second week in September, 

 though Hume recorded one from Kotri at the end of August; 

 its passage lasts right up to the end of October and the last 

 that I saw was a single bird on 5 November. Never very 

 abundant, yet at the height of its passage by no means rare, 

 it much affects the shade of " babools," though J once met 

 with one quite out on the desert in a single " babool " tree. 

 During s{)ring passage it did not come under observation in 

 two years, nor has Mr, Whistler met with it then in the 

 Lower Punjab, though it passes through there in autumn. 



All my specimens are typical neiDnainu, which is a pretty 

 distinct race ; the upper parts are much })aler, under parts 

 lighter, less heavily streaked and not so dark on the sides of 

 the breast, as compared with the western (typical) form. 

 Two adults at the end of September had not moulted their 

 winos, one had moulted the tertials only, the other some of 

 the secondaries and corresponding coverts. This is contrary 

 to the uvual rule, amongst adult migratory passerine birds, 

 that the wings are moulted before migrating, and I noticed 

 this exception also in other species in India, I have 

 occasionally seen it in British migrants, but these were 

 migrating very early and before any moult took place 

 at all. 



