322 ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF SINDH. 



I cannot claim to have famished much original information 

 in regard to this genus, but I think I have said sufficient 

 to show how much it is in need of careful revision by modern 

 ornithologists to whom the museums of Europe are open. 



I have^ little doubts myself that a critical investigation of 

 bills, feet, tails, proportions of primaries, and the like when 

 taken along with such reliable records as exist of colours of soft 

 parts in life, and localities where specimens were obtained, 

 will demonstrate the existence of at least twelve separable 

 species, and greatly restrict the areas of distribution of several 

 of the few species now usually admitted. — A. 0. H. 



gbbitional ftotcs on *fe litis of Stnty. 



By Captain E. A. Butler. 



Species lately noticed in Sindh by myself and not apparently 

 as yet recorded from that province. 



5.— Gyps bengalensis, Gmel 



I have observed the White-Backed Vulture on several occasions 

 in the neighbourhood of Kurrachee, and there is a skin of a 

 bird in the Frere Hall Museum that was shot in Sindh. 



353.— Orocetes cinclorhynchus, Vigors. 



I observed a Blue- Headed Chat Thrush in Kurrachee on the 

 9th March this year, sitting upon a low wall near the Infantry 

 Barrack. It was not at all wild, and remained near the same 

 spot for about ten days, during which period I saw it on several 

 occasions, but never when I had a gun with me. It was 

 evidently passing through in course of migration. 



475.— Copsychus saularis, Lin. 



I have noticed the Magpie Robin occasionally during the hot 

 weather in the Lyarree Gardens about two miles from Kurrachee. 

 I wonder if they breed here ? 



722.— Euspiza luteola, Sparrm. 



I noticed a few pairs of the Red-Headed Bunting this year 

 (1877), at Kurrachee towards the end of March, amongst some 

 low scrubby bushes on the maidan between the Camp and Clif- 

 ton. They were evidently migrating, as there is no cultivated 



