64 I THE BIRDS OF A DROUGHT. 



young have the wings and tail brown) and looking to the 

 dimensions of the wing above given (that of umbrinus varies 

 from 14*2 to 15*7), I think it needless to discuss this hy- 

 pothesis, the more so that I have one specimen of the true 

 umbrinus from Jacobabad, Sindh, (in regard to which vide infra, 

 my notes to Mr. Murray's paper) which is as different from the 

 present species as any Crow can be. 



662. — Corvus splendens, rare. 684. — Acridotheres tristis, 

 706. — Passer domesticus. 716 bis. — Emberiza striolata, on the 

 flanks of the rocky hills only. 



732 bis.— Bucanetes githagineus, Licit. 



Jodhpoor is the most eastern locality from which this species 

 has as } r et been obtained. Westwards of this it occurs in Jesul- 

 mir, as well as in Sindh. At Jodhpoor it was very rare, and 

 I only saw and shot a single male, and though my men hunted 

 hard, being very indignant at my getting a species that they 

 did not get, they never succeeded in securing one. 



760 bis,— -Pyrrhulauda melanauchen, Cab, 



Miis. Hein, I., 124, 1851.— Finsch, Tr. Z. S., VII., 275, 

 pi. XXV., 1869— Hartl. and Finsch,Y'6g. Ost. Afr. 469, 

 1870.— Blanf Ibis, 1873, 223. 

 crucigera, Rupp. Syst. Uebers., 79, No. 313, 1845, (in 



p.) nee Tern. 

 nigriceps, Hengl. Fawn. Roth. Meer. No. 185, 1861, nee 



Gould. 

 affinis, Blythy Ibis, 1867, 185. Hume, S. F., L, 212, 1873. 

 I formerly, loc. cit. supra, indicated the more conspicuous 

 differences between this species and the common Indian P. gri- 

 sea, Scop., but I had not at that time seen the female of the 

 present species, nor was I aware of the extent to which the 

 plumage of apparently adult males differs. 



The following are dimensions recorded in the flesh of several 

 specimens, males and females : — 



045 051 

 ? 555 101 21 32 07 05 05 



The irides were brown ; the bill varied from pale whitey 

 brown, bluish on lower mandible, to pearly white with a bluish 



