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'A winter visi;or abundaiit'y reinfonol ilu ing the spring migration. The 
rus)i north-west is at its hrighf in the niiddlr of April and rontinups till 
the cnc^ of the ironth. 'i'he last birds remain till well info i\fay. The 
adnlt males are the first to leaw, the females and immature birds follow- 
ing two or three weeks lat<'r. The return migration eommences in 
Oetobcr. Few examples wiih chestnut breasts are to be seen at this 
season. This Flycatcher constantly descends to the ground to take its 
prey. " Ir. autumn I have seen it as earlj- as September l.'ith. ^Ve did 
not meet with a sing'.e adult male in w^inter, the first appearing about 
the middle of March." 
fn I?awal Pindi District, I, owing to illness, I was not 
observing during 1h.' autumn migration.s, but noted the species in small 
numbers during th • winter. However, in the first half of April great 
number^; passed through on i.iigration . So far as it goes this agre'^s with 
the status of the species in Kohat and generally speaking the ornitholog3' 
of Kohal and Kawal Pin li districts is very similar. 
I next met with the species in Ferozepore district, very much 
further south. Here it was \ery numerous on the spring migration of 
1912 It was first met with, March 27th. and continued numerous 
during th ■ first half of April. But I cannot lind anv- mention of it 
from that district either on the autumn migrations or du ing the winte-r. 
Here in Jhelum district it was very numerous during the .spring 
mijiiation this j-ear in April, being last seen on the 27th of that monrh. 
It arrived again on the autumn migration an 1 I first saw it on the -1th 
October. It was numerous during October, but as soon as the migra- 
tions were over, it was (dear that comparatively few individuals stay for 
the winter. In view of Capt. Whitehead's note I may remark that I 
shot a red-breasted male on Sth January. 
C. ngree with your criticism that there is too much flower in the 
bai kground of the coloured plate, the really typical perching place is a 
twig 01 bare branch in the shade inside a trrc '(if the,- phrase may be 
allowed), hence the bird is not. very conspicuous and may be "asily 
oxerlooked. When this little Flycatcher was only known to me through 
the medium of coloured plate.'^, I used to wonder how it was to be dis- 
tinguished from a Eobin, if the tail was shut. Yet there is really no 
danger of confounding the two birds, for the Flycatcher is jerky and 
restless in its movements, constantly flirting the tail over its back, so that 
the patch of whi'c catches the <ye soo:er than tie lel breast. It i.s mu>'h 
smalle; than the Robin and is more likdy to be mistaken for a small 
Warbler than anything else, for the bright colouration of the breast onlj^ 
shows up under the most favourable conditions of light and background. 
The harsh, jarring alarm note is however, very distinctive and often calls 
one's attention to an indiviilual that would otherwise be overlooked. 
Like so manj- other small birds, the Eed-breasted Flycatcher is 
very pugnacious; only a few weeks ago I saw two small birds fluttering 
