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the range of one bird in greater detail, as in the breeding season from Turkestan 

 to the Altai Mountains and Lake Baikal; on passage throughout Turkestan , 

 Transcaspia, and East Persia ; in winter the basin of R. Tarim (Turkestan), 

 Southern Turkestan, Cashmere eastwards to Kotokhai, Afghanistan, and 

 Bushire on the Persian Gulf. Recorded also in Asia Minor and the Ural 

 Mountains. 



I find however that Eversman's Redstart must come more regularly into 

 British territory and the plains than may be understood from the above account. 



From Quetta, Meinertzhagen writes (Ibis, 1920, p. 166.): — "A common winter 

 visitor to the Quetta district from early November to the middle of March, 

 a few old cocks assuming full breeding plumage before departure. It was 

 noted that some females remained a few days after all the cocks had left, the 

 last cock being seen on 13. iii and the last hen on 18'iii". Marshall had previously 

 recorded it as common in winter at Quetta (Jour. B.N.H.S., xii, 603). 



It must occur commonly all up the N. W. Frontier in winter judging from the 

 following records. Whitehead writes, in the (Birds of Kohat and Kurram) (Ibis, 

 1909, p. 219), " Fairly common, especially in the Miranzai Valley, from 

 December till March, and on the Samana from October till the end of March, 

 chiefly frequenting scrub -jmigle, olive groves, and avenues. The call is a 

 peculiar croaking note somiding like gre-er. The male assumes nearly full 

 I)reeding plumage before leaving. Not observed in the Kurram Valley." 

 Hume long ago (Ibis., 1871, p. 403) recorded it as common at Murdan. 

 Mr. A. E. Jones informs me that he has seen it at Risalpur, Nowshera, and 

 Dera Ismail Khan, 



Proceeding further north but more into the plains we find that Hume says 

 this Redstart is a regular winter visitor to the Peshawar Valley, reaching at 

 least as fa.r as Attock (where it was very numerous during the cold weather of 

 1869-1870), and leaving early in April (Ibis., 1870, 530., Stray Feathers., iii 219). 

 He also says elsewhere (S.F. ix, 327.) "very common throughout the winter 

 months about Attock, in the Khyber, and generally about the bases of the hills 

 N. W., W., and S. W. of the Peshawar Valley." 



Mr. A. E. Jones found this bird during the winter of 1918-1919 about Cam- 

 bellpore ; he first saw a male on the 15th December, and in January it became 

 fairly plentiful . He goes on to say in epistola: " The comitry round Cam- 

 bellpore is anything but suitable to a bird of arboreal habits and it was surprising 

 to see how the bird accommodated itself to its surroundings, i.e., small hamlets 

 round which are a few " sheeshum " and " neem " trees, leafless at this season, 

 on Avhat is otherwise a barren plain. In February when it started warming up, 

 the birds' numbers rapidly decreased and during the past fortnight not one 

 was observed." 



In the neighbouring station of Rawalpindi, Eversman's Redstart was also 

 a-oparently common the same winter ; for a valued correspondent Mr. B. H. 

 Bird, I.e. S., kindly informed me that he had seen some on various dates 

 betAveen 31st January and 24th March, and sent me specimens in verification 

 of their identity. ; 



On the Himalayan side of the Punjab I have not found many records. At 

 Gilgit, Biddulph obtained two males in December and January (S. F. ix. 327), 

 while Scully writes (S.F. x. 115) " This Redstart is a winter visitor to Gilgit 

 and is common at an elevation of 5,000 feet from the middle of October to the 

 first week in March.' ' 



Of the Chitral Vallej-, Biddulph writes : " It appeared to be common in the 

 upper part of the Chitral Valley in November when I procured several speci- 

 mens of both sexes " (S.F. ix., 327). This was amplified later by Perreau 

 (Jour., B.N.H.S., xix) who says " very common down to 4,000 feet on the 

 waste stretches in bushy parts in winter from November to February. Not seen 

 atfer middle of March." 



