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however not being" absolutely isonstant. 



I may note that specimens from Dehra Ghazee Khan where 

 the birds appear at the beg-inning- of the hot weather^ temporary 

 visitants from Khelat and Afg-hanistan^ are apparently slightly 

 |3aler and still more conspicnously spotted on the wing coverts 

 ph^ai the Sindh specimens. Following Mr. Blyth's example, these 

 ought to be separated as dilwtior ! I set my face however against 

 this hair-splitting. 



188.— Yunx torquilla, £. 



I observed this occasionally in the neighbourhood of stations, 

 and elsewhere where acacia (babul) trees were pretty plentiful. 

 In the more desert portions of the country, it is, I believe, un- 

 known. 



212.— Coccystes Jacobinus, Bodd. 



Not observed in Sindh during the cold weather, but Mr. 

 James, c. s.^ has recently sent me a specimen obtained in Sep- 

 tember, in a garden on the banks of the river Lyaree at Kur- 

 rachee. Mr. James remarks, that he has never, met with it else- 

 where in Sindh. It seems I may note that Bodd's name above 

 given, has precedence of Gmelin^s, better known and most ap- 

 Ipropriate designation mtlamleucus. 



214.— Eudynamis horonata, L. (=:nrientaUs 



apud Jerdon) . , 



; The koel, was very seldom seen in Sindh during our stay, 

 'but Capt. Maiden informed me that he had killed it more than 

 ;once at Jaeobabad. 



It seems to be generally admitted that K orientalis, L., is a 

 'Ceram or Amboyna koel, or from Ternate, Timor and Amboyna, 

 as Gray gives it. Anyhow it is not our Indian bird, which, ac- 

 cording to Mr. Gray, stands as horonata, L. Lord Walden gives 

 it as homrata, L. (Ibis, 1869, p. 338,) but this is probably a 

 jclerical oversight. 



217.— Oentropus rufipennis, llUger, 



The crow pheasant, as the larger Coucal is commonly called 

 ,in India, was very abundant all along the banks of all the larger 

 rivers wherever tamarisk jungle occurred ; again wherever 

 this bush, or tree, as it sometimes grows to be in Sindh, fringes 

 the margin of any swamp or lake, there some pairs of this species 

 "are pretty -sure to be seen trotting about on the ground with tails 

 carefully lifted up, or threading their way through the branches 

 '.with the peculiar serpentine motion they adopt in moving 

 .through thickets. In. Lower Sindh, they .are less common. 



