164 Col. 11. Meinertzhagen on the [Ibis, 



GEnanthe picata (Blytli), 



An abuiulant summer visitor to tlie Quetta District, as- 

 cending to 11,000 feet but being usually found in largest 

 numbers ])etween GOOO and 8000 feet. Tbey commence lo 

 arrive in tlie first few days of March and leave again in 

 early September. One killed at Macli on I'i). i. was very 

 exceptional . 



I found nine nests with eggs, the first with two on 2. v. 

 and the. last with five on 30. vi. Young were found from 

 20. V. to 12. vi. The nests were in clefts of the natural rock 

 in six cases, in a heap of stones once, in stone or mud walls 

 three times, and in a wood slack once. They w ere always far 

 in and well hidden, being large grass structures with a good 

 many feathers, and occasionally a slight wool or hair lining. 



The wings of three males vary from 88 to 91 mm. 



(Enanthe opistholeuca (Strick.). 



A rare bird of passage on both migrations. In spring I 

 saw a pair on 24. ii., and there is a male in the Quetta 

 Museum obtained locally on 18.iii. In autumn I shot a 

 female at Quetta on 21. x. 



Saxicola torquata 



/S. t. indica (Blytli). [P ratine, maura Gates, F. B. 1.) 



Usually an abundant summer visitor to the hills over 

 about 7000 I'eet^ but local. Particularly abundant at Khawas, 

 Ziarat, and Spereragha. The majority of these breeding- 

 birds leave the Quetta District altogether in winter, but a 

 few remain and can be found in the plains in sheltered 

 nooks. The movement to the breeding grounds in the hills 

 takes place in April. 



I found one nest of this Stonechat at Ziamt on 29. v., 

 containing four eggs, and I saw many fully-fledged young 

 at the same place throughout Jul}'. 



I do not believe that the true maura occurs in India, 

 but winters in southern Araljia, Abyssinia, Somaliland, the 

 Sudan, etc., breeding in the Caucasus and S.W. Pei-sia 

 (Witherby, Ibis, October 1903). At least a quarter of tliQ 



