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



with Afghan specimens, having a longer wing and on the 

 whole a stouter bill than has J3. y. gitliagineus. Mj speci- 

 mens (3 2) give the following measurements: — cJ : wing 

 88-1)3, bill 12-5-13, depth 9-10. ? : wing 83*5-89, bill 

 12-13, depth 9-10 mm. The bill in the male is dull 

 orange-yellow, dull yellow in the female. The males, besides 

 having a brighter pink wash than the females, have the 

 crown hoary grey tipped with brown instead of wholly brown 

 as in the latter sex. 



A Linnet was said to have been obtained at Daulatpur by 

 Murray's collector : this reidly came from Bushire ; Butler 

 thought he saw one at Karachi, but no further confirmation 

 of the species in Sind has coim; to hand. 



Carpodacus erythrinus roseatus (Hodgs.). 



The Common Rose Finch would seem to be a rare bird ; 

 Murray obtained two at Sehwan in December 1877 and sent 

 them to Hume for identification. Major Raymond Cooper 

 tells me that he had one alive once which had been caught 

 near Karachi a few years ago ; it was an adult male, but in 

 captivity it lost its red colour at the next moult. I saw a 

 pair and obtained the adult male at the Karachi Sewage 

 Farm on 6 January, 1919. There is one in the British 

 Museum from Sehwan (Hume coll.), doubtless one of 

 Murray's referred to above. 



Serimis pectoralis Murray (Vert. Zool. Sind, 1884, p. 190 — 

 Karachi) appears to have been Serinus icterus of Africa, and 

 doubtless an escape. 



Gymnoris xanthosterna transfuga Hartert {=■ fiavicoUis 

 auct.). 



The Yellow-throated Sparrow is a somewhat local bird, but 

 in places quite common. To Upper and Central Sind it is 

 perhaps a summer visitor arriving, as Sir Evan James noted, 

 in March ; neither I nor Hume met with it in winter in 

 Upi»er Sind, and even to the Narra district it is probably also 

 a migrant. Blanford records it in Thar and Parkar where 

 trees exist. In Lower Sind however it is resident, in spite 

 of Butler's assertion to the contrary, for I have found it 



