184?.] Notes on the Ornithology of Candakar. 777 



'VHist. Nat., VII, 26.* Length about 9 inches ; of wing 6} inches, and 

 tail 3£ inches : tarse 1^- inch. Plumage of the upper-parts somewhat ru- 

 fescent clay-brown, with large round white spots on the feathers, more 

 or less concealed, and wholly so on those of the middle of the back : 

 coronal feathers with medial whitish streaks : face white ; some of the 

 radiating feathers on the sides of the beak terminating in black vibrissse : 

 chin, throat, lower tail-coverts, and the tibial and tarsal plumes, white, 

 also the fore-part of the under-surface of the wing : a longitudinal 

 broad streak on each feather of the breast and abdomen : on the hind- 

 neck, the white so predominates upon the feathers as to give the 

 appearance of a half-collar : the great wing-feathers have broad in- 

 complete pale bands, disposed alternately on their two webs ; and the 

 middle tail-feathers have a double row of semi-alternating pale spots, 

 passing into dull bands on the outer tail-feathers : beak (in the dry 

 specimen) whitish ; and claws pale horn-colour]. Common among the 

 rocks and ruins of old Candahar. 



19. Upupa epops, Lin. The common Hoopoe. * Hoodhood' of 

 India. — This bird was scarce and only a summer visitor. I saw it, 

 however, in the valley of Pisheen on the 6th March, when returning to 

 this country. 



20. Coracias garrula, Lin. This bird is very common during the 

 summer months, but departs by the end of autumn: it arrives at 

 Candahar in the middle of April. [Burnes obtained it in the Moultan], 

 Persian—" Subz Kullag ;" Pushtoo—" Sheen Tootee." 



21. Atcedo ispida, Lin. Found on the banks of rivers all the year 

 through. 



22. Merops apiaster, Lin. European Bee-eater. These birds 

 appeared at Candahar in the beginning of April, and left in the begin- 

 ning of autumn. 



23. M. persica, Lin. These came in with the last. [Two speci- 

 mens in the Society's collection were obtained by Sir A, Barnes at 

 Buhawalpore.] 



24. Cuculus canorus, Lin. My specimens were shot at Quetta in 

 April. The variety, C. hepaticus, was also obtained there in the same 

 month. 



* The work cited is not accessible here ; but I have some impre&sion that the species 

 referred to is a small Athene (v. Noctua)-E. B, 



