1920.] Birds of Qiietta. 169 



Apiis melba. 



A. m. melba (L.). 



A fairly common but local summor visitor to all the Quetta 

 hills which I visited, occurring from the highest tops to the 

 lowest vallejs. I never found the nesting sites. Marshall 

 states it arrives from the end of April. I noted large parties 

 evidently migrating over Quetta from :^;>. viii. to iJO. viii. 

 A male I shot on l.viii. has a wing of 209 nnn. 



Apus apus. 



.1. a. pekhiensis (Swinh.). 

 A common summer visitor to the hills. Times of arrival 

 and departure not noted, the first seen being on 2. v. and 

 none being observed for certain after the first week of July. 

 It breeds exclusively in cliffs and caves np to 11,000 feet, 

 apparently laying towards the end of May, and young were 

 heard in a nest on 7. vi. A male obtained on 17. v. is 

 undoubtedly this form, 



Apus affinis (Gray). 



A. a. galUegensis (Antinori). 



Asunniier visitor to the Quetta hills, first noted on 22. iv., 

 the latest seen being on 8. viii. Marshall found eggs on 

 17. v., and I found young in the ne.'-t on 7. vi. on Murdar at 

 ySOO feet. (3ne olitained on 20. v. agrees with birds from 

 N. W. Africa and Palestine. 



Caprimulgus europaeus. 

 C. e. utnc'iid Hume. 



An unconnnon summer visitor, also a bird of passage 

 noted in spring and autumn. It breeds between 5000 and 

 9500 feet, three nests with two eggs each being found on 

 (l.v., 10. v., and 28. v. I visited the latter on IkvI., but the 

 eggs had hatched about the previous day. 



No dates of arrival or departure wei'e determintid, but 

 passage was most noticeable during April^ and from 12. viii. 

 to 1. ix. 



