MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. COS 



Muscicapa grisola — Spotte^l Flycatcher. — This bird is common about Sept- 

 ember on migration ; I have not noticed it at other times. Common at 

 about 9,000 feet in May. 



Sipliia parva — European Red-breasted Flycatcher. — Arrives in the beginning 

 of April and stays about a month. During April is common, 



Pratincola caprata — Common Pied Bush-Chat.— Arrives at the beginnin» 

 of April, leaves in October, Very common; breeds. 



Pratincola maura — Indian Bush-Chat. — On migration in April,not common, 

 Saxicold picata — Pied Chat. — Very common, arrives March, leaves Septem- 

 ber, October. Breeds. Nests April 30th, 4 fresh eggs. May 14th, 4 youn^ 

 May 18th, young. All nests in holes among rocks, 



Suxicola capistrata — White-headed Chat. — Shot one at the foot of the hills 

 near Sibi in February. 



Saxicola bamesi — Barnes's Chat. — Fairly common near Quetta in the cold 

 weather. I have shot and examined two of these birds, but they do not seem 

 to quite agree with the description in Volume II, "Birds, Fauna of British 

 India, the colour on the chin and throat is connected with the axillaries, 

 and there is no band of white between, the breast being also black. 5. 

 finschi I do not know as there is no description of this bird in the 

 book. 



Sa::icola isabeUina. — Isabelline Chat. — Very common in the hot weather 

 arriving about middle of Marc' . Breed«. I have found two or three nests 

 all with young aoout April 20th. They were placed at the end of a hcis 

 in the ground about 2 feet in or more. 



Saxicola deserti — Desert Chat.— Not uncommon in March and April. I 

 do not know whether this bird remains to breed or not, but I think 

 not, 



Ruticilla erythronota — Eversmann's Redstart,— This redstart is common 

 about Quetta in the cold weather, leaves about March. 



Ruticilla rufiventris — Indian Redstart. — Common in the cold weather, stays 

 later than the foregoing, in fact it may possibly breed in the hills, as I 

 have shot one about 8,000 feet in Jime. 



Cyanecula suecica — Indian Blue-throat. — Common on migration in March 

 a""d April, in suitable places, none later. 



Merula aiWg^wZam —Black-throated Ouzel. — This black-throated ouzel is 

 very common in Quetta in the cold weather, both in Caatonii;ents and in the 

 hills: it leaves about middle of April. 



Petrophila cyanus — Western Blue Eock-Thrush. — This thrush is not un- 

 common in the hills round Quetta in the summer: it does not come into Can- 

 tonments : arrives about end of March and breeds, I have found one nest in 

 a cave in the hills with 4 fresh eggs in April ; I have also seen young birds, 



Monticola saxatilis — The Rock-Thrush, — I have shot two specimens of this 

 bird near Quetta, one a female in January, and one male in good plum- 

 age on the 25th April. These are the only ones I have seen. 



