1920.] Birds of Quetta. 1(53 



(Enantlie finschii. 



(E.f. barnesi (Gates, F. B.I. 1890). 



A fairly common winter visitor to the Qnetta Plains from 

 early October (first observed on 9.x.) but disappearing- in' 

 early December. Not noted at any other time of the year. 

 Though [ saw a great number of male* I only once saw a 

 female, which I obtained on 18. x. The wings of six males 

 varied from 92 to 95 mm. 



(Enanthe isabellina (Cretzs.). 



A connnon winter visitor and bird of passage in spring and 

 autumn, arriving on spring passage in the middle of March 

 and passing through in autumn from late August to late 

 October. A fair number are also summer visitors, when 

 they breed not only in the plains but up to 8000 feet. In 



1913 I never found a nest and the birds were scarce, but in 



1914 they were connnon and I found nests with eggs from 

 24. iv. to 2.vi., and two with young on 19. v. and 24. v. 

 Marshall, however, found two nests with young about 20. iv. 



Owing to the very confinod area in which these birds live 

 during their summer or winter stay in a neighbourhood — 

 often a matter of a few hundred yards, it was not dithcult, 

 by plotting out the various pairs, to discover movement. I 

 found the same method most useful with Chats in their 

 winter quarters at Nairobi in East Africa, where a pair of 

 Plesclianka's Chat remained in almost the same acre for over 

 four months, while a single Finsch's Chat remained within 

 less than an acre in the middle of Gr. H. Q. Camp at Eafa in 

 southern Palestine from 20. x. to the day I left in January. 



(Enanthe xantlioprynma. 



<7s. X. clinjsopygia (de Filippi). 



A rare autumn and winter visitor. I obtained the only 

 two I saw on IG. xi. and 18.viii, in different years. There 

 are also specimens in the Qnetta Museum from 11,000 feet 

 and 8000 feet, l)oth shot in November. Watson obtained 

 one at Chaman in Sej)tember. 



The wing of the male I obtained measures 90 nun. and 

 that of the female 92 mm. 



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