150 NOTES. 



Not long ago my friend, Mr. Chill, kindly sent me two speci- 

 mens in nearly full breeding plumage of Lobipes hyperboreus, 

 shot by himself on the 2nd May 1877, at the Sooltanpoor Salt 

 Works. This was probably on the birds' northern migration. 

 It will be remembered that Mr. Adam got specimens, (S. F., II., 

 338) at the Sambhur Lake (another salt source) at the close of 

 September, when the birds were doubtless on their return 

 journey to the sea coast. Except at times of passage they are 

 never met with inland in India. I have now received nume- 

 rous specimens from Kurrachee, the Gulf of Oman, and the 

 Persian Gulf, and they occur also off the west coast of the 

 peninsula though sparingly all the way to Ceylon and up 

 the east coast to Madras, where my friend, Dr. Ludovic 

 Stewart, obtained the first specimen, and where I have since 

 found that, at times during the old season, they are almost 

 common in the bazar. 



Captain Butler writes from Kurrachee : — 



" Calling on Colonel Eenney here, I saw three beautiful 

 living specimens of Myiophoneus horsfieldi, which he informed 

 me that he had obtained, when quite young, at Poorbunder," 

 (in Kattiawar, E. Long. 69° 50', and N. Lat. 21° 37'.) « He 

 told me that several pairs breed in the cliffs there early in the 

 rains, and that the people regularly take the young, which they 

 sell for four annas or so to the residents, descending the cliffs by 

 rope ladders." 



This is the most westerly locality from which this species has 

 been as yet recorded. See also S. F., III., 469. 



Later again Captain Butler informs me that he has received 

 a nest and eggs of this species, taken for him in these cliffs by 

 a friend. 



Embeeiza buchanani, Bly., J. A. S. B., XIII., 957, founded 

 on one of Buchanan Hamilton's drawings, has been generally 

 identified with K hortulana, Lin., even in recent works like 

 Mr. Dresser's. 



This identification depends, I believe, mainly on a foot note of 

 Blyth's to J. A. S. B., XVIIL, 811, i{ E. buchanani, nobis=#. 

 hortulana, (L)." Now I possess Blyth's own copy of the J. A. 

 S. B., sold to me by Jerdon when he was leaving India, and in 

 this he has written in his own hand writing opposite the foot 

 note, " No ! " and as a matter of fact this identification is quite 

 wrong. Hortulana does not occur in India, while huttoni, 

 which is common in Rajpootana and Central India, was the 

 species figured by Buch., Ham., and described by Blyth he cit 



