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In«Grilgit, Biddulph and Scully reported it to be a common summer 

 visitor arriving early in May and breeding about 5,000 ft. in the valleys 

 (S. F. ix., 313 ; X, 101, et 261). 



Hume obtained specimens from the Hazara and Agrore Valley including 

 a female from Murree (10th May). (S. F. iv, 501, Cat. Brit. Mus). Cocks 

 and Marshall took three nests about 5,000 feet near Murree in May (S. fi'. 

 i., 350). In the same region Rattray considered the species not common and 

 only recorded it near Dunga Gali where he took two nests (Jour. B. N. B. 

 S. Vol. xvi, 660.). I have no breeding record east of Murree. 



To sum the above up, it is clear that Unwin's Nightjar is a summer visitor 

 and breeding species from May onwards in the lower hills and valleys of the 

 chains of mountains which run up and down the north westerly and north- 

 easterly frontiers of the Punjab. It is also extremely probable that a 

 small number breed in the Salt Range as I obtained a male with the testes 

 greatly enlarged near Choa Saidan Shah on 26th May 1913 (Ibis. 1916, 84) 

 and similar stragglers may be expected in the contiguous low ranges such 

 as the Kala-Ohittar, and the broken country about Rawalpindi. 



The questiDn next arises as to what becomes of these Nightjars in the 

 winter ; Hartert says that the bird is a winter visitor to Sindh, the Punjab, 

 and N. W. Provinces, i.e., the United Provinces, but I cannot find the 

 evidence on which this is based. 



Whitehead says that it passes through Kohat in spring and autumn 

 (Ibis. 1909, 253) and Doig has recorded that it is a passage migrant for a 

 short time in September to the Eastern Narra, Sind (S. F. viii, 372.) The 

 only other record that I have traced for the Punjab and Sindh is a 

 female in the Hume Collection, obtained near Sirsa, but the date is not 

 given in the B. M. Catalogue, (see also S. F. iv, 501). 



My own records are scanty ; an adult female was shot on the Canal 

 bank at Gujranwala on 1st August 1915 and two other Nightjars seen about 

 the same tirue (6th July and 5bh August) were probably of the same 

 species ; these wo aid all be on the autumn migration. 



In Jhang district I have obtained three specimens only, one at Kot 

 Lakhlana (on the Lyallpur border) on 27th September 1918, a female at 

 Jhang on 3rd May 1919, and one at Chund on 20th August 1919. These 

 birds were all doubtle.-'s on passage. I have a few records of Nightjars seen 

 but not identified in various districts and some of these may refer to this 

 species, but the number of such records is not great and there is no use in 

 quoting them in the absence of identification. 



The above data would point to the fact that Unwin's Nightjar is only a 

 spring and autumn passage migrant in the Pimjab and it would be in- 

 teresting to know what are its true winter quarters. It does not appear to 

 me that they are fully known as yet and any authentic records bearing on 

 its distribution in time and place are therefore to be welcomed. 



The call note of this sub-species does not appear to have been described. 



SYKE'S NIGHTJAR, GAPRIMULQU8 MAHRATTENSI8, Sykes. 



This Nightjar inhabits Baluchistan, Afghanistan and the plains of 

 North- Western India extending South to Belgaum and eastwards to 

 Upper Bengal. It appears to be closely related to Caprimulgus nubicus. 



To examine its distribution more closely, I find the following records. 

 In Seistan, ' according to Cumming (Jour. B. H. S. xvi, 690), it is very 

 numerous in summer from April to September, breeding all over the 

 gravel-strewn " dasht " in May and June ; he does not specifically note 

 that it migrates in winter but his words appear to point to that conclusion, 

 which is probably correct, as Rattray records that at Thall the species is 



