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No. 298. Sonamarg, August 11, 1873. — Bill black ; feet fleshy brown ; iris brown. Length 



7*4 inches, wing 6-65, tail 3-05, tarsus 0*4. 

 No. 319. Sonamarg, August 10, 1873 [Capt, Biddulph). 

 No. 430. Tashgam, August 17, 1873. 

 No. 542. Snimu, August 26, 1873. 

 Nos. 759, 760. Lukung, September 20, 1873. 

 No. 798. Karghalik, November 6, 1873. 



Dr. Stoliczka states that he saw this Swift in considerable numbers near Sonamaro: on 

 the 10th of August. Dr. Scully observes \—" The Swift was first noticed flying over the fort 

 at Tarkand on the 10th of April ; after that it was seen daily near the fort and city until the 

 end of July, when it seemed to have disappeared." He gives an account of its nesting, and 

 says that the Turki name for it is " Kirich KarlogJiach,'' the " Sabre Swallow." 



I have examined the specimens of Cypselus acuticauda mentioned by Dr. Scully {t. c, 

 p. 132), and believe that they are also referable to C peMnensis. 



Family CAPEIMULGID^. 

 Genus C APRIMULGUS. 



258. Caprimulgus .^gyptius. 



Caprimulgus arenicolor, Severtz. Ibis, 1875, p. 491 ; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 190 ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. 



p. 33(1885). 

 Caprimulgus cegyptius, Licht. ; Scully, Str. F. iv. p. 133 (1876) . 



A single specimen was obtained by Dr. Scully in the forest-region of the Dolan, about 

 thirty miles from the city of Yarkand ; but it was never met with in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of Kashghar or Yarkand. 



Pamily COEACIID^. 



Genus CORACIAS. 



259. CORACIAS GAUKULA. 



Coracias garrula (L.) ; Hume & Renders. Lahore to Yark. p. 177 (1873); Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. 

 p. 68 (1873) ] Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 319 ; Blanf. East. Persia, ii. p. 125 (1876) ,• Scully, Str. F. 

 iv. p. 133 (1876) ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 48; Scully, ibid. p. 429; C. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 102; 

 Homeyer & Tancre, MT. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 83 ; Zarudn. Ois. Transcasp. p. 48 (1885) ; 

 Scully, J. A. S. Beng. Ivi. p. 79 (1887) ; Radde, Ornis, iii. p. 492 (1887) ; Sharpe, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. (2) Zool. v. pt. 3, p. 84 (1889). 



No. 259. Srinagar, July 5, 1873. 



No. 193. Srinagar, July 28, 1873. 



No. 265. Srinagar, August 5, 1873.— Nilknosh. 



No. 644. Leh, September 6, 1873. 



Colonel Biddulph mentions that he shot a female in the Sind Valley on the 20th of July, 

 1874 b^t did not notice this species away from Kashmir. 



Dr. Henderson says that the European EoUer, '' so common in Kashmir, especially in 



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