776 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XX. 



[Reprinted with corrections from the " Ibis" of 1909 by permission.'] 



ON THE BIRDS OF KOHAT AND THE KURRAM VALLEY, 

 NORTHERN INDIA. 



BY 



Lieut. C. H. T. Whitehead, Indian Army. 



With an Introduction by Major H. A, F. Magrath, Indian Army. 



Part II.* 



{Continued from page 197 of this Volume.) 



[558.] Hemichelidon sibirica. The Sooty Flycatcher. 



Fulton, J. B. N. H. S. xvi., p. 50 (Chitral, 4,000 ft.); Rattray, t. c. p. 427 

 (common above 8,000 ft. on Murree Hills) ; Ward, op. cit. xviii, p. 479. 



250. <$ ad. Kohat, 1,768 ft., 9th May. 



Capt. Keen shot this bird in our garden on the 8th of May. In the course 

 of the following week I came across several more. It nests commonly in 

 the forests of the Safed Koh up to tree-limit. 



[561.] Siphia parva. The European Red-breasted Flycatcher. 



Marshall, J. B. N. H. S. xiv., p. 603 (Quetta : common in April) ; 

 Fulton, op. cit. xvi., p. 50 (common in Lower Chitral in winter, leaving in 

 mid- April). 



715. e ad. Kohat, 1,768 ft., 20th March. 



Major Magrath has made the following notes on this species :■ — " A 

 winter visitor abundantly reinforced during the spring migration. The 

 rush north-west is at its height in the middle of April and continues till the 

 end of the month. The last birds remain till well into May. The adult 

 males are the first to leave, the females and immature birds following two 

 or three weeks later. The return migration commences in October. Few 

 examples with chestnut breasts are to be seen at this season. This 

 Flycatcher constantly descends to the ground to take its prey." 



In autumn I have seen it as early as Sept. 13th. We did not meet with 

 a single adult male in winter, the first appearing about the middle of March. 



[567.] Cyornis leucomelanurus. The Slaty-blue Flycatcher. 



Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii., p. 480 (very plentiful in Kashmir). 



627. d ad. Kohat, 1,850 ft., 1st March. 



This solitary example was the only one met with. Its alarm-note (tit-it- 

 it) attracted my attention. 



[568.] Cyornis stjperciliaris. The White-browed Blue Flycatcher. 



• The arrangement and nomenclature followed are those of Oates and Blanford's " Birds " in 

 the ' Fauna of British India.' The numbers in square brackets before each name are the same 

 as in that work. 



