496 NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF MOUNT ABOO 



[Occurs, so far as I know, in no other part of the whole region, 

 but on the extreme eastern limits of this latter, at Sambhur 

 Mr. Adam once saw a specimen during the rainy season. — 

 A. 0. H.] 



703.— Munia malabarica, Lin. 



The Plain Brown Munia is very common both on the hills 

 and in the plains. It nearly always roosts in company in desert- 

 ed nests in low thorny bushes or in Euphorbia hedges. I have 

 often of an evening seen as many as four or five all huddled 

 up together in one nest. 



[Very common throughout the entire region. — A. 0. H.] 



704. — Estrelda amandava, Lin. 



The Red Waxbill is another instance of local distribution. 

 In some places it is not uncommon, but in most places it is rare 

 or absent altogether, I saw one specimen at Aboo, but probably, 

 as it was the only one I came across, it had escaped from con- 

 finement. It is not uncommon in the neighbourhood of Deesa, fre- 

 quenting the long Pampus or Sarpat grass so common in most 

 of the river beds. 



[Dr. King never procured this at Aboo, nor has it been sent 

 or recorded from any part of Cutch, Kattiawar or Jodhpoor, 

 but I obtained it in Siudh, and know that it is common there 

 during the inundation. It belongs essentially to well-watered 

 regions, just as malabarica does to arid tracts, though each at 

 times intrudes, on the province of the other. — A. O. H.] 



705. — Estrelda formosa, Lath. 



The Green Waxbill is common at Mount Aboo, but I have 

 not observed it in the plains below, although I believe it does 

 occur in some localities. 



[Is another Aboo speciality and occurs nowhere else through- 

 out the entire region, but this is not the most northern point 

 reached by this species. In Central India it is common 

 at Jhansi, which is some 30 miles further north than Aboo, 

 and then skipping the comparatively dry intervening region 

 reappears it is said, (non vidi) in the moist sub-himalayan 

 districts of Oudh and the North- West Provinces.— A. O. H.J 



706.— Passer indicus, Jard. and Selby. 



The Indian House Sparrow is so common and so well 

 known both on the hills and in the plains that it is not necessary 

 to make any remarks upon the species. . 



[Throughout the entire region. — A. 0. H.] 



