1920.] Birds of Quetta. 159 



Agrobates galactotes. 



A. g. familiar is (Menetr.). 



A scarce 1)ird of passage on Itotli migrationf", and may 

 possibly hreed at Nnshki. I obtained single birds on l.ii. 

 and 8. viii.; a specimen in tbe Qiietta Museum was obtained 

 at Nushki in May, while Watson procured birds at (.liaman 

 in August and at Sanzal in September. 



Scotocerca inquieta. 



aS'. /. striata (Brooks). 

 A common resident up to 9000 feet in summer and to the 

 Quetta Plains in winter. Four nests found between 8000 

 and 9000 feet from 20. v. to 7. vi., containing five, five, six, 

 and four eggs respectively. No nest actually rested on the 

 ground, though they almost touched it. They were cunningly 

 placed in thorns, in one case with a huge wild rhubarb leaf 

 bushes, sheltering the nest from the sun. 



Suyacrinigera Hodgs. 



The only specimen observed was obtained on Zarghun 

 at 9500 feet on 3. v. 



Prinia gracilis. 



P. <j. hjnda Blyth. 



One was obtainetl at Quetta on 2. viii., M'hile another in the 

 Museum (here was sliot at Shahrig on 17.xii. It can only 

 be classed as a rare stragoler to northern Baluchistan. 



lanthocincla liueatum (Vig.) subsp, ? 



I obtained one adult and four immature birds at Ziarat 

 between 24. vii. and 2G,vii. They were not uncommon in 

 small family parties in the thick bush at the bottom of 

 wooded ravines. 



Sarudny (Ornith. Monatsb. xviii. Dec. 1910, p, 188) de- 

 scribes a new race of lanthocincla liiieatiini from Bokhara. 

 He explains that he has been unable to compare his birds with 

 any Himalayan specimens and is guided solely by Hartert's 

 * Viigel der pal. Fauna.' His bird, which he names hilke- 

 vitcJii, is too dull and too grey for Tanth. I. lineatum. In 



