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■€ontribtitions to the Ornithology of India, 8fC_^ 179 



Mr. Gray gives Franklin's name alhofrontata, priority of aureola 

 Lesson^ but according- to Pucheran^ this bird is '^ Shipedura 

 mireolaf' Y., and if sOj this name should stand. 



323 &^s.— Erythrosterna parva, Bechst. 



I only saw specimens of this species in the neighbourhood of \\ 

 Sukkur. '; \ 



351.— Petrocossyphus cyanus, L. 



In the level cultivated and irrigated tracts of Sinh^ this species 

 was never met with, but it was by no means uncommon in the 

 rocky hills that divide Sindh from Khelat ; and where, at rare 

 intervals, perennial streams such as the Gaj, and the Nurree Nai 

 flow through them_, it is abundant. I met with, it in several 

 localities along the Mekran Coast, and I shot and preserved a 

 specimen from Muscat, 



356.— Geocichla unicolor, Tichell. 



I myself never met with this species in Sindh, but Captain 

 Maiden informed me that he killed a specimen at Jacobabad 

 on the 7tli February, 186 7. 



365.— Cicliloides atrogularis, Tem, 



In the better cultivated portions of Upper Sindh especially in 

 and about groves and gardens, this species was very common. 

 We used continually to see it busy on the ground in the thick 

 brush-wood, turning over leaves in a most systematic and busi- 

 ness-like manner. I particularly noticed it on one occasion 

 working a large patch of dead leaves backwards and forwards as 

 a pointer would a field of turnips. Occasionally it was also 

 seen in localities entirely devoid of trees feeding in the irregular 

 patches of a kind of mustard that is so generally grown through- 

 out Sindh. About Hyderabad I again noticed it, and strange 

 to say obtained two fine specimens, one a male, in nearly full 

 breeding plumage, at Gwader on the 19th February. 



385.— Pyctorhis sinensis, Gmel. 



This species is abundant in Sindh along the banks of the 

 Indus, wherever there is long grass. Again, between Jacobabad 

 and Sukkur, I saw it in greater numbers than I have ever I 

 think elsewhere noticed it_, unless perhaps in the Eastern Jumna 

 Canal in the Saharunpoor district. It is not so common about 

 the inland waters, but even here I saw it occasionally. In the 

 arid tracts, which so largely predominate in this province, it 

 was never met with. 



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