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nearer India than Asia Minor. Small flocks of immature birds stay with us till 

 November. Curiously enough, in the spring of 1907, only a few small flocks 

 were observed passing through the Kohat district. The migration appears to 

 have been diverted elsewhere, though whether this was due to the district 

 being invaded at the time by vast armies of young locusts in the crawling 

 stage, I cannot say One would have imagined that this would have had an 

 opposite effect. 



[529.] Sturnus hdmii. The Himalayan Starling. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 338 ; Marshall, op. cit. xiv. p. 602 (rare at 

 Quetta, shot in March and April); Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 479 (very common id 

 Kashmir in summer from 5,000 to 7,000 feet). 



We must have overlooked this Starling. Colonel Rattray records it from 

 Thall as " not common, but a fair number may be seen any day during April 

 and May ..." A Starling shot by me on the 14th of April (the last date on 

 which a Starling was seen) proved to be Sturnus menzbieri. 



[530.] Stuknus porphyronotus. The Central Asian Starling, 



Watson, J. B. N. H. S. xv. p. 145 (in flocks in Chaman, near Quetta, in 

 December) ; Ward, op cit. xvii. p. 479 (does not appear to breed in Kashmir) 

 Perreau, op. cit. xviii. p. 186 (occurs in Chitral). 



62. $ ad Kohat, 1,760 ft., 4th January. 

 688. $ ad Kohat, 1,760 ft., 16th March. 



719, 721. $ 9 ad. Kohat, 1,760 ft., 21st March. 



A winter visitor, not so common as the next species, occurring singly or 

 in flocks, often in company with S. menzbieri. 



As Dr. Sharpe has pointed out to me, both Major Magrath's examples from 

 Bannu and mine from Kohat show signs of the mixing of this race with some 

 other, the head being generally marked in places with purple gloss. 



[532.] Sturnus menzbieri. The Common Indian Starling. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 339 (Thall; common in winter ) ; Fulton, op. 

 cit. xvi. p. 49 (Chitral; common winter visitor); Gumming, t. c. p. 687 (pro- 

 hably the Starling which occurs in flocks in Seistan in winter); Ward, op. cit. 

 xvii. p. 479 (the majority migrate through, a few nest). 



63. $ ad. Kohat, 1,760 ft., 4th January. 

 117. $ ad. „ „ 13th February. 

 718 & 720. $, $. Kohat, 1,760 ft., 21st March. 



Abundant in the cold weather, arriving about the third week in October and 

 leaving towards the middle of April. 



[544.] Temenuchus pagodarum. The Black-headed Myna. 

 Fulton, J. B. N. H. S. xvi. p. 49 (very common in summer in Chitral at 

 5.000 ft.) ; Rattray, t. c. p. 427 (rare in the Murree Hills) ; Ward, op. cit. p. 479 

 (occurs in Kashmir, but is rare). 



4. summer visitor to the district. I have only twice met with this species, 

 onct on the 25th of August, when I observed about a dozen feeding in a gar- 

 den in company with the Common Myna, and again a pair on the 4th of June. 



