In tlie Kui-runi Valley, ia Afghanistan, IMajor Wardlaw Ramsay found it abundant 

 in June, apparently nesting in the cliffs. Sir O. St. John records it as not uncommon 

 in Southern Afghanistan, and says that he shot it in the Pishin Valley, in the autumn, 

 6000 feet above the sea. Dr. Aitchison met with the species at Mount Do-shakh in 

 Northern Afghanistan, and Capt. Yate at Darband-i-kil Rckhta, in the Muro-hab 

 district of Herat, on the 18th of May. 



In the Himalayas the Eock-Martin appears to extend throughout the entire rano-e, 

 having been procured by Colonel C. H. T. Marshall in Chamba, and by the late Colonel 

 Pemberton in Bootan. In the Gilgit district Dr. Scully records it as a summer visitor, 

 arriving about the third week in March, when it is very common in the lower valleys 

 throughout April and May. Dr. Jerdon says that he observed it in the valley of the 

 Sutlej and in the Sind Valley of Kashmir. Mr. Hume writes : — " In many of the higher 

 hills south of the Snowy Eange it seems to a great extent to be a permanent resident, 

 not at any rate migrating en masse from the country, but, as a rule, only retreating lower 

 down the valleys in the cold weather ; some few, however, during the latter season are 

 met with in the higher hills of Central India and Rajpootana. On the Neilgheries there 

 appears to be a permanently resident colony." In Nepal, says Dr. Scully, " this Crai;- 

 Marlin was only noticed on a few occasions in the great valley, but was more common 

 in the Nawakot district and the Markhu Valley in winter. It was always found over 

 mountain streams having high rocky banks." 



Colonel Butler states that it is a cold-weather visitant to Mount Aboo, where it is 

 not uncommon, delighting in high inaccessible rocks and generally seen in company 

 with C. concolor. Mr. Hume remarks that it is not found any where else in Rajpootana, 

 hut there is a specimen from Cutch in the Hume collection. ISEr. Blanford states that 

 he only saw the species at one spot in the "Wardha Valley in Central India, but tlie 

 Hume collection contains an example from Northern Canara. 



The Piev. S. B. Pairbank has found the species on the Mahabaleshwur Hills, aiul 

 also on Khandala, where Mr. Blanford has also met with it. In the Nilghii-is, 

 Mr. Davison says that it is only a cold-weather visitant, never \ev\ numerous. He has 

 observed it only in the immediate vicinity of Ootacamund, and always about rocky elitfs. 

 By the end of March all have apparently departed. 



Captain Horace Terry has noticed the species in the Palani Hills. " They Avere 

 Hying about some high clitfs near Pittur. They had much the appearance of P. concolor, 

 but were lighter coloured on the Ixick, and with some whitisli colour on the throat. 

 They kept on flying in and out from under a ledge on the face of the clitf, scrcaniinu' 

 and chattering at the time ; but as the ledge was below mo, I could not see whether \Wy 

 liad their nests there or not." 



Of the nesting of the species in India, Mr. Hume writes : — 



" The Crag-Swallow only hreeds, so far as I kiunv, amongst precipitous rocks in tlic 

 Himalayas at heights of from 7000 to 10,000 feet. 1 imce found a number Ijrecdin-; 

 on the road from Mussoorie to Simla, not many miles i'rum the new hill station Chukiata. 



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