1920.] Birds of Quetta. 191 



Scolopax nisticola. 



S. r. rtisf/CoIa ]j. 

 A regulai- bat scarce winter visitor from October to 

 February, occurring- from 5000 to 8000 feet. 



Gallinago gallinago. 

 (j. g. gallinago (Ju). 



A common bird of passage, commencing to arrive in 

 mid-August, the bulk passing in September. It becomes 

 scarce in the mi(hlle of winter, passing north again during 

 Marcjh and a few renniining till the end of April. Eighty- 

 three couple is the record bag, and was obtained in March 

 1914. 



I heard a Snipe "bleating" on the Lora on 17.iii. 



Gallinago solitaria Hodgs. 



Until 1911) this species was only known from Quetta by 

 a single example in the Museum, obtained in October 1001b 

 In 191H, however, more than tifteen were shot, mostly in 

 October and between 5000 and 901)0 feet. 



I shot two females on 25. x. and 23. xi. 



Limnocryptes gallinula (L.). . 



The Jack Snipe is seldom seen near Quetta before the 

 middle of October, but it remaiiis till the middle of April 

 and is particularly common on the spring passage, when I 

 have seen as many as a hundred in a day. 



Phalaropus lobatiis (L.). [ = hiperhoreits.) 



Two in the Quetta Museum were obtained in May and 

 September. I shot an adult female on 28. iii. and saw 

 others at Seranan on G.iii. 



Erolia minuta (Leisl.). 



Plentiful on passage at Khuslulil during October and 

 in the middle of April. Not noted in winter. One was 

 obtained as late as 17. v. 



