MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



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European Bee-Eater 

 Common King-fisher 

 European Hoopoe 

 European Nightjar 

 European Swift 

 Common Indian Swift 

 Cuckoo 



Button's Owlet . . 

 Cinereous Vulture 

 Egyptian Vulture 

 Lammergeyer 

 Allied Grey Shrike 

 Bay-backed Shrike 

 Rufous-backed Shrike 

 Pale-Brown Shrike 

 Rufous Shrike . . 

 Indian Oriole 

 Common Pied Bush-Chat. . 

 Pied Chat 

 Isabelline Chat . . 

 Indian Redstart. . 

 Western Blue-Rock Thrush 

 Rock Thrush 

 Missel Thrush . . 

 Red-Mantled Rose Finch . . 

 Desert Finch 



White-winged Grosbeak . . 

 Gold-fronted Finch 

 House Sparrow . . 

 Tree Sparrow 

 White-capped Bunting 

 Grey-necked Bunting 

 Crag Martin 

 Common Swallow 

 Common Pariah Kite 

 Black Kite 

 Kestrel . . 



Indian Blue Rock Pigeon . . 

 Little Brown Dove 

 Indian Ring Dove 

 Chukor . . 

 Seesee . . 



Kentish Plover . . 

 Little Ringed Plover 

 Black-winged Stilt 

 Bittern . . 

 Eared Grebe 

 Indian Little Grebe 



Merops apiastev. 



A Ice do ispida. 



TJfupa epops. 



Caprimulgus europceus . 



Cypselus apus. 



Cypselus affinis. 



Cucidus canoncs. 



Athene bactriana. 



Vultur monaclius. 

 Neophron percnopterus. 



Gypa'etus harbatus. 



Lart.ius assiniilis. 

 Lanius vittatus. 

 Lardus erythronotus. 

 Lanius isabellinus. 

 Lanius phainicuroid,es, 

 Oriolus kundoo. 

 Pratincola caprata. 

 Saxicola pieata. 

 Sa.vicola isabellina. 

 Ituticilla rufiventris. 

 Petrophila cyanus. ■ 

 Monticola savatilis. 



Tardus viscivorus. 

 Propasser grandis. 

 Rhodospiza obsoleta. 

 Pyenorhaonphus carneipe^. 

 Metoponia pusilla. 

 Pftsser domesticiis. 

 Passer viontana. 

 Emberiza steioarti. 

 Emheriza buchanani. 

 Ptyonoprogne rupestns. 

 Hirundo rustica. 

 Mihms govinda. 

 Milvus nigrans. 

 Tinnmiculus alaudarius. 

 Columba intermedia. 

 Turtur cambayensis . 

 Turtur risorius. 

 Caccabis chuhar. 

 Ammoperdix bonhami. 

 Atgialitis alexandrina. 

 JEgialitia djuhia. 

 Himantopus candidus. 

 Botaurus stellaris. 

 Podicipes nigricollis. 



Podicipes albipenms. 



You may wonder at this list. I wonder at it myself, but in every case 

 when identification has been uncertain, the parent has been obtained. It is 

 owing to the fact that this country has never been properly exploited 

 omithologically, that such unexpected species are found breeding here. 



R. METNERTZHAGEN, Captain. 



QuETTA, July 1914. 



