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



resenting the trespass of any other Chat. In the heat of the 

 day it sits quietly in some shady spot. Each winter a bird, 

 probably the same one, frequented my compound and roosted 

 each night in a hole under the roof of my bungalow. 



Barnes, remarking on the commonness of this species in 

 Sind, says he has reason to believe that it breeds in the 

 Bolan Pass (higher up it is of course a common breeding 

 species) antl may do so in north Sind : this, I think, is not 

 improbable, it breeds in the high lands of Kelat, and the 

 highest ranges of the Khirthar in Sind are really but the last 

 ranoe of these mountains before one comes down to the 

 plains. 



I have (Ibis, 1922, pp. 151-5) gone into the question 

 of supposed dimorphism of this bird, and dealt at some 

 length with its plumages and measurements, so that I need 

 not recapitulate here. 



(Enanthecapistrata (Gould). 



I have already gone very fully into the question of this 

 bird and stated my reasons for considering it a distinct species 

 and not a dimorphic form of picata (see Ibis, 1922, pp. 151- 

 155). It only remains to reiterate that it is very uncommon 

 in Sind, whereas jncata swarms. Doig obtained one on 

 the E. Narra on 18 February, 1879, and Blanford shot two 

 near Cape Monze on 18 February, 1877, recorded (S. F. 

 V. p. 246) as morio, where he comments on its rarity in 

 Sind. All these are in the British Museum, and are un- 

 doubtedly capistrata. I obtained a female which I assign to 

 this species at Karachi on 29 January, 1919, and I thought 

 I once saw a male from the railway. Beyond these there are 

 no records save that it seems, curiously enough, that Gould's 

 figure was taken from a bird probably obtained near Sukkur 

 (S. F. vii. p. 119). 



(Enanthe opistholeuca (Strick.). 



Strickland's Chat, too, is evidently quite a rare bird ; 

 Hume remarked on its entire absence ; Blanford's collector 

 got one either at Kotri or Karachi, though he himself only 

 saw it outside Sind — in the Jaisalmer desert. There is ouq 



