AND NORTHERN GUZERAT. 459 



[Common throughout the whole region, for I cannot hold 

 that Sindh specimens are entitled to the separate specific name 

 conferred on them by Blyth, c. f. I., p. 171. — A. 0. H.] 



188. — Yunx torquilla, Lin. 



The Wryneck is not uncommon, tho' often overlooked owing 

 to its habit of hiding* itself in the middle of dense bushes and 

 low trees, and there remaining perfectly motionless. I shot 

 one near Deesa in January 1875, and others again recently, 

 and I believe I saw one on the wing once at Mount 

 Aboo. The former was in low Milk bush (calotropis gigantea) 

 jungle. I believe it only occurs in the cold weather. 



[Dr. King never obtained this, either in Jodhpoor or at Aboo, 

 but it occurs as a straggler throughout the whole region with 

 which I am dealing. It is however very locally distributed ; it 

 is unknown in the more desert tracts, but occurs, occasionally, 

 perhaps as a passing visitant, where there are thickets of Jhand 

 (Prosopis spicigera) or acacia and the like. From Kattiawar 

 I have noted a specimen from Burda killed in April. From 

 Cutch one obtained in March near Bhooj itself. I got specimens 

 myself in April at Pallee in Jodhpoor and Sirohee. Mr. Adam 

 got a few specimens near the Sambhur Lake. It does not belong 

 properly to this arid region, but still it occurs there, here and 

 there, at the close of the cold season at any rate. — A. 0. H.] 



193 bis. — Megalaima inornata, Wald. 



The Western Green Barbet (identified for me as above 

 by Mr. Hume) is common at Mount Aboo in the jungles 

 above and below the hill. I took a nest on the 8th April 

 1875, containing four fresh eggs of a dull white colour. 

 The nest hole, which was a fresh hole and made by the birds 

 themselves, was drilled upon the under side of a broken-off 

 branch of a mango tree, about 20 feet from the ground, and the 

 eggs were deposited upon a quantity of wood dust that had 

 fallen into the hole during the operation of boring, about 12 

 inches or 15 inches from the entrance. The old birds evinced 

 great anxiety during the time I was enlarging the hole to 

 procure the eggs, hopping from bough to bough within a few 

 yards of me the whole time. On the 4th May 1875, I saw an- 

 other nest, with half-fledged young ones, the hole was bored 

 in the trunk of a dead tree about 30 feet from the ground. 



[For a description of this species see above, p. 401. This spe- 

 cies is very common at Aboo, and this is the extreme northern 

 limit of its range. It occurs nowhere else throughout the entire 

 region with which we are dealing, but I have it from the ghats 

 the whole way from Mahabuleshwar to Khandeish, and from the 



