186 Col. R. Meinertzhagen on the [Ibis, 



Pterocles orientalis (L.) . { = P. areiiarlus. ) 

 A I'esideiit, breeding around Quetta in small numbers, 

 eggs Ijeing found at Chanian on 29. vi.; a liaU-iieJged 

 young bird is in the Quetta Museum, and I saw pairs at 

 Kliuslidil on 29. vii. and neai- Quettu on 10. vi. 



Enormous flocks of these birds arrive in November, 

 being only on passage and returning again in March. 



Pterocles coronatus. 



P. c. atratus Hart. 



A male in the Quetta Museum was shot at Said Hamid 

 on 23. xii. 08. No other record. 



Pterocles alchata. 



P. a. caudacutas (Gm.). 



Arrives in large numl)ers in November, usually congre- 

 oatino- near Said Hamid and watering in the Lora Kiver. 

 It almost entirely disappears in winter, but passes through 

 in thousands again in the first lialf of March. 



Pterocles senegallus (L.j. 



A female in the Quetta Museum was shot at Said Hamid 

 on2G.xi.07. No otlier record. 



Alectoris graeca (Meisner). 



Common on all the hills up to 11,000 feet in sunnner, but 

 never leaving them even in winter. It is ecjually fond of 

 cultivation in the hill-valleys, the bare rocky slopes of some 

 wind-swe[it ridge, or the glades in junipei' forests of 

 Ziarat. Young of the size of Quail were seen at <S()0O Feet 

 on 31. v., and several half-grown broods in early June. 

 Nests with nine and six eggs were found on 27. iv. and 

 3. v. at 8500 and 9000 feet, in each case being but a mere 

 scratching under a thin l)ush sparingly lined with a little 

 witliered grass. 



I very foolishly omitted to preserve specimens, so am 

 unable to say to which race they belong. 



