G40 Dr. C. B. Ticehurst on [Ibis, 



hatched on 18 June. Mr. Ludlow has a clutch of seven eggs 

 taken at Malir on 20 April, but four to six is the more 

 usual number. 



[Copsychus saularis saularis (L.). 



Butler records that occasionally during the hot weather 

 he noticed Magpie Robins in the Lyarree gardens at Karachi. 

 There are three specimens in the Karachi Museum, labelled 

 " Sind,'^ perhaps obtained there. This bird certainly does not 

 occur now at Karachi, and I conclude that in the absence of 

 any other suhsequent records in Sind that these birds were 

 escapes. It is said to be a cold weather visitant to Mt. Aboo 

 and north Clujerat, and does not occur in Cutch.] 



Turdus ruficollis atrogularis Temm. 



The Black-throated Thrush is a winter visitor in variable 

 numbers. Hume says that in the better cultivated parts of 

 Upper Sind he found it very common in January and 

 December. Maybe it is always commoner in Upper Sind, 

 where suitable terrain is more abundant, but I am certain 

 that in Lower Sind it is a weather migrant to a large extent. 

 In 1917-18 I saw none, in 1918-19 very few, but at the end 

 of 1919 an extraordinary influx set in : I had seen odd ones 

 up to 29 December, when I noted several, but on 4 January, 

 1920, they were swarming wherever a little cultivation 

 afforded cover and food ; a week later many had again 

 passed on. This Thrush is a common winter visitor to Quetta 

 in northern Beluchistan, and I ascertained that the weather 

 there about Christmas-time was unusually severe, and it seems 

 reasonable to suppose that these birds had migrated to the 

 warmer plains of Sind in front of the cold snap. 



According to my experience, and it agrees with that of 

 Hume, this Thrush is a bird of damp groves and cultivation, 

 and may be seen in almost any cover provided the ground is 

 damp. It hops about when feeding in a Fieldfare-like 

 manner, and when disturbed often flies to the topmost bough 

 of a tree, reminding one much of a Fieldfare. They roost in 

 company in any thick-foliaged tree. At this time of year they 



