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602. Ageodeoma campesteis. Common;. 



646. Paeits ntjchalis. 



I shot two specimens during December in the Western part of Kachh, 

 and I saw a few more at various other localities, but the species is decidedly 

 rare. It frequents low jungles, thin and thorny, such as they are in 

 Kachh. 



Above, glossy black, somewhat duller on back and tail ; nuchal patch, 

 a band about the middle of the wing, extending only to the basal por- 

 tion of the inner web of the second primary, the extreme tips of all wing 

 feathers, the greater part of the margins of the outer webs of the three or four 

 last primaries, a narrow subterminal outer edge of three or four last seconda- 

 ries, the broad outer margins, also involving the tips of the tertials, the first 

 outer tail feather entirely, the second nearly so (except on shaft and on the 

 edge of inner web), the outer web of the third last, and the tips of all the 

 succeeding feathers, (decreasing to the centre one), white. A broad black 

 band from the lower mandible along the centre of the underside to the 

 abdomen, broadest in front and on breast. Sides from, the angle of the 

 mouth to the lower tail coverts including white, on the side of breast, the 

 belly and abdomen, tinged with very pale but distinctly fulvous green. 

 Tibial feathers white in front, black behind ; some of the longest lower tail 

 coverts are blackish at the base of the inner web, the remainder all white. 

 Wing 2-7 to 2-75, tail 21 to 225 \ tarsus 065 ;. bill at front Q'35. Bill 

 black ; legs plumbeous, very stout. 



This is probably the most northern part of the country in which the 

 species occurs. The two specimens above described slightly differ in size and 

 coloration from Jerdon's description and figure of a South Indian example, 

 but both evidently are the same species. 



663. Cobvtjs (Anomalocoeax) impitdictts, Hodgs. 



This name is adopted by Gr. R. Gray (Handl., II, 14) for the Indian 

 crow, C. splendens, Tern., being referred to Java and Sumatra. It is the 

 only representant of the Corvidae, but is very common throughout Kachh. 



684. Aceedotheees teistis. Very common. 



In several places I saw this species associating at dusk in great num- 

 bers near tanks where there was high grass growing, and at night fall they 

 disappeared under a tremendous noise like shooting stars in the arundiriaceous 

 forest, with the peculiar rapid turn in their flight, exactly as Slumus vul- 

 garis does in Europe. 



The entire plumage is much duller in winter than in summer, and is 

 exactly like that of A. fuscus. The first primary is minute and the fourth 

 the longest. In one specimen, the second primary is entirely white, and 

 some of the first tertials are also white. This is evidently an accidental 



