114 FURTHER ADDITIONS TO THE S1NDH AVIFAUNA. 



It may be well to explain distinctly that all the novelties 

 above mentioned, except Crocopus chlorigaster (which was ob- 

 tained near Jacobabad by my native collector when out with 

 the General on tour to Mitra), and those from Dowlutpoor 

 (sent me with about 80 other skins by a native to whom I gave 

 lessons before leaving Sehwan), were procured by myself ; and 

 although these exceptions include the five most important of 

 the novelties (L. auriculatus, S. leucornela, L. carmibina, E. 

 miliaria, R. mesolenca), and were not collected by myself, I have 

 every reason to be satisfied that they were really procured at 

 Dowlutpoor, whence I received them. 



I take this opportunity of noting in regard to Captain Butler's 

 and the Editor's remarks (V., 327, 330) that I asserted that 

 Irena puella was procured near Sukkur, for the simple reason 

 that a skin of it was sent down to me along with other skins 

 from that place. Whether it was an escaped caged bird or 

 not, I cannot of course pretend to say. I had nothing to do with 

 collecting the specimen. I only told the tale as it was told to me. 



Note by the Editor. 



At Mr. Murray's request I have corrected the nomencla- 

 ture throughout, and identified the species referred to in the 

 preceding very important paper. 



Not only does this paper add the very large number of 

 twenty-four species to the Sindh list, but it adds six species 

 to the Avifauna of India, and extends to a very considerable 

 degree the previously known area of distribution of these. 



None of these six species are included by Jerdon, and none 

 of them have been as yet described in this periodical. These 

 six are : — 



497^er.— Ruticilla mesoleuca, Ehrenb. 



This species, originally discovered near Jeddah, has subse- 

 quently been observed in Greece and Turkey, and appears to 

 have its head-quarters in the western portions of Asia Minor. 

 A straggler has also been obtained at Heligoland ! 



This species also occurs at Bushire. Major St, John obtain- 

 ed it there. Not knowing the species he took it for R. hodgsoni, 

 which it closely resembles, and told Mr. Blanford that he had 

 obtained this latter species there. Mr. Blanford not unreason- 

 ably pooh-poohed this surmise, and refused to record it in the 

 account prepared by him, with Major St. John's assistance, of 



