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of European and Indian specimens^ without being able to dis- 

 cover any valid, constant difference. 



593.— Budytes viridis, Scop, 



Comparatively common throughout the irrigated and irrigable 

 portions of Sindh. / , 



594.— Budytes citreoloides, Hodgson. 



This was the commonest of all the wag-tails ; one or two 

 specimens killed in January even, had large patches of black 

 mingled with the grey of the back. I have in a separate paper, 

 which will appear in an early number, discussed these yellow 

 wag-tails and have nothing now to add on the subject. 



594 &^s.— Budytes citrepla, Pallas. 



Less common than the preceding, but still plentiful enough 

 in marshes, swamps, meadows, (and there are such, though not 

 many, in Sindh) and irrigated fields. _f-. ,\..;^,f '^ 



597. — Pipastes plumatus, MullArboreus, Beehst. 



This pipit appeared to me to be almost wanting in Sindh. I 

 may have overlooked it ; but the only specimen that I seem to 

 have noticed and procured, was in the better cultivated region of 

 this bleak country ; in fact in that portion which the desert 

 dwellers of Sindh are pleased to call the garden of their pro- 

 vince, namely Larkhana. 



Of Pipastes agilis, Sykes., P. maeiitaUis , Blyth, so abundant in 

 most parts of India, I procured no single specimen, and cannot 

 remember even to have noticed it. Probably I overlooked it, but 

 at the same time since spinoletta is common in Sindh, it may be 

 that agilis is there represented by it, and really does not occur 

 except, perhaps, as a straggler. 



602.— Agrodroma campestris, Bedist. 



This species was far less common in Sindh, than it is through- 

 out the North-West Provinces and the Punjab. In the bare 

 portions of the country which in Upper Sindh extend from 15 

 to 40 miles from the foot of the hills, and throughout the bare 

 hilly region south of the Sehwan Hills on the right bank of the 

 Indus, I altogether missed it ; but in the more cultivated lands 

 about Shikarpore, Larkhana, and Mehur, and to the east of the 

 Indus, in Roree, Hyderabad, and Tatta, we met with it, though 

 not in great numbers, and I procured a single specimen close 

 to Kurrachee. 



I have never been able to understand the changes of plumage 

 in this species. Some birds have the plumage below absolutely 



