430 Notes.. 



439.— Chatarrhsea Earlei, Blyfh. 



" I have often met with this species^ in reedy banks of streams 

 and canals; I dare say you did see it at Kusmore/^ 



539.— Cisticola schoenicola, Bonap. 



" I have only seen the specimens I send/'' 



711.— Gymnoris flavicoUis, FranM. 



Mr. James says, " This species appears about the end 6i 

 March, and I think breeds with us. It is common to see them 

 feeding- on the pollen of the flowers of the wild caper. They 

 leave us, I think, in the autumn." 



716 &^s.— Fringillaria striolata, LicU. 



" I only found this species in two places, at the foot of the 

 great range of hills west of the Muuchur Lake. It was in 

 small parties near hot springs, perching on trees and tall reeds, 

 and constantly darting down into the bed of the stream and 

 drinking. I also found a few, several miles away from water, on 

 a bare dry hill side. The names of the places were Phaduk 

 and Gorandee, both in the Sehwan Talooka, and I must 

 here mention that all my specimens were obtained in the 

 Dadu and Sehwan Talookas, i. e., west of the Indus, in the 

 centre of Sindh, the most northerly part of the Kurrachee 

 Collectorate.''^ 



721.— Euspiza melanocephala, Scojp. 



" This species comes in at the end of March, in countless flocks 

 in some years, and at all times commits great damage amongst 

 the ripe wheat. It is called " hooree," i. e., deaf by the Sindees, 

 as no amount of shouting will dislodge it from the crops, and it 

 is only to be moved by stones being hurled into the midst of the 

 flock. In the year 1869, they committed so much damage in some 

 of the magnificent wheat fields which nearly surround the Munchur 

 Lake, that the cultivators would not take the trouble to cut the 

 crops, and threw them all on the hands of their Zemindar. When 

 I first saw these birds they, like P .JlavicoUis,\\\e munias and weaver, 

 birds, were feeding on the pollen of the flowers of the wild 

 caper, which you will recollect covers wide tracts of waste 

 ground in Sindh. They only stay a month or five weeks at 

 the outside, and directly the harvest begins in earnest, take their 

 departure. ^^ 



767— Alauda gulgula, i^ra^R 



A single specimen sent, not discriminated. 



