362 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL KIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIU. 

 No. XVIII.— BIRDS NESTING AT QUETTA. 



Nest of Eared Grebe (Podicipes nigricollis) near Quetta. 



It may interest you to know that I have found the following species 

 breeding here this year. I should be obliged by your letting me know 

 whether any of these instances are new to British India, as I am aware that 

 vast studies have been made in Indian Ornithology since the " Fauna of 

 British India " was published — 



Magpie. . 



Red-biUed Chough 



Indian Grey Tit . . 



Rock Nuthatch . . 



Indian Great I>eed Warbler 



Moustached Sedge Warbler 



Eastern Orphean Warbler 



Common Whitethroat 



Sykes' Tree Warbler 



Upcher's Tree Warbler 



Streaked Scrub Warbler . . 



European Striated SwaUow 



Gray Wagtail . . 



Hodgson's YeUow-headed Wagtail 



Brown Rock Pipit 



Skylark 



Hume's Short-Toed Lark . . 



Sharpe's Sand Lark 



Crested Lark 



Blue-cheeked Bee-Eater . . 



Pica rustica. 

 Fregilus cjiafulus. 

 Parus cir>erus. 

 Sitta tephronota. 

 Acroeephalus stentoreus. 

 Lusciniola melano2)ogon. 

 Sylcia jerdoni. 

 Sylvia cinevea. 

 Sypolais pallida. 

 Hypolais languida. 

 Scotocerca inquieta. 

 Hirundo rvfula. 

 Motacilla melanope. 

 Motacilla citreoloides. 

 Anthus similis. 

 Alauda an^evsis. 

 Calandrella acutirostris. 

 Alavdula persica. 

 Galerita cristata. 

 Merops persicus. 



