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



Surgeon-Greneral Stewart has stated that he thinks he has 

 seen it in Sind in the cold weather. This bird, which is so 

 common in the juniper-forest area of northern Beluchistan, 

 may well move down into northern Sind in the winter, and 

 possibly is not very uncommon in the Khirthar, but I doubt 

 it being met with in the plains. 



The type-locality of this species is Koteghur, near Simla, 

 in the Himalaya {vide Zool. 1886, p. 435). 



Emberiza luteola Sparrm. 



Blant'ord records one obtained at Rohri on 8 April, 1875, 

 and Butler saw a few pairs on spring passage on 4 April, 

 1877, on the " maidan " on the Clifton side of Karachi. 

 Possibly this species does not normally touch Karachi on its 

 migrations as T never came across it, and it niiiy be 

 commoner in Upper Sind on passage than these records 

 indicate, as it is a summer visitor to the highlands of Kelat 

 and northern Beluchistan. 



Emberiza buchanani Blyth. 



The Grey-uecked Bunting is chiefly a passage migrant, 

 which fact Butler also noted. In spring the earliest arrivals 

 were noted on 3 March, but the bulk come during the latter 

 half of the month, and in some years, as in 1919, they were 

 very numerous and the passage lasted until 17 April. In 

 autumn the last half of September sees them passing through 

 again ; in 1918 there were very few, but in 1919 a good 

 many came under notice, one piece of desert jungle at 

 Jhimpir being full of them on 21 September. A certain 

 number apparently spend the cold weather in Sind, probably 

 only in those years when the monsoon rain has been good 

 and desert-plants have therefore seeded ; thus Murray records 

 it in November at Sehwan, Blanford too met with it in 

 Thar and Parkar in the cold weather, and I saw a few in 

 desert jungle near Karachi on 22 November. During their 

 passage they are to be found in scrub-jungle, cultivation 

 such as " jowari '^ crops, cut lucerne fields, and especially on 

 the edges of fields where weeds abound and on whose seeds 

 they largely feed. 



