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to the house boats, being usually seen on their roofs ; some might alwa 5 ^s be 
seen at the Dhal Darwaza feeding busily on the lumps of floating refuse which 
were continually being SAvept down by the faU of water. It was occasionally met 
with, sometimes in the company of other Wagtails, on flooded pastures. Pairs 
were seen carrying nesting material on April 22nd and May 3rd and in the former 
case the nest site was an old box on the roof of a house boat. On two occasions 
I saw the courting display ; in this the cock shuffled roimd the hen, with the tail 
and wing nearest the latter spread out and sloped dowmwards, so that the upper 
surfaces were presented to the object of his affections. 
Three males and three females were preserved and yield the following 
measurements : — 
Bill Jrom ir mg. Tail. Tarsus, 
skull. 
Males .. 17- 5— 18 mm 91—96 89—94 24-5—25 
Females .. 17-5 — 18-5mm. 87 — 93'5 84'5 — 90 23-5 — 25‘5 
The three males and one female appear to be full adults, and are practically iden- 
tical in plumage except that the female has the pure black of the back somewhat 
sullied with ashy grey. All four birds have recently moulted the central pair of 
tail feathers. The other two females appear to be in their first summer plumage 
and have not moulted the central tail feathers. In both the back is ashy grey, 
somewhat mottled with black. All six birds were about to breed this year by the 
condition of the organs. The soft parts are : — iris dark brown ; bill and legs 
black ; mouth, blackish in males, tongue slaty-grey, in females fleshy or blackish 
livid. 
The flashed Wagtail — Motacilla dlLa perso'iiata, Gld. 
Observed occasionally for the greater part of April but I did not make very 
accurate notes on the appearance of this race, owing to the difficulty of distin- 
guishing it in the field from some phases of M. a. hodr/soni. 
The White Wagtail — Motacilla alba alba, L. 
Occasional specimens of the White Wagtail were seen throughout the first half 
of April ; two were seen as late as April 23rd and one of these last birds was 
secured. It is a male in summer plumage and is not distinguishable from 
European examples of this race. 
The Yellow-headed Wagtail — Motacilla cilrcjola citreola, Pall. 
Met with in small numbers on various dates from April 13th to May 5th. 
Hodgson’s Yellow Wagtail — Motacilla citreola calcaratus, Hodgs. 
Met Arith in small numbers on A-arious dates from April 18th to May 6th. 
y The Cashmere Blue -throat — Luscinia suecica abbotti (Richm.). 
Blue-throats, obviously on passage, were seen as follows : — April 4th two single 
birds, one in a garden and one in a AA-illow grove, but not clearly identified were 
apparently Blue- throats ; April 17th one amongst boulders at the foot of the 
Takht-i-Suhman ; April 20th one seen ; April 22nd one or two in the same place 
as on April 17th ; Ain-il28th one in the same place ; May 4th one in an orchard 
tree. The last bird, a male, Avas shot and proves to be of the above-named race, 
to which presumably the other birds also belonged. 
The Himalayan Ruby-throat — Luscinia pectoralis (Gould). 
A female was shot on April 29th in a small bush — covered ravine Avith running 
water on the lower slopes of the range of hills behind Pendreathan. 
The Magpie Robin — Copsychus saidaris (L.). 
Several Avere seen along the road about Garhi both on April 2nd and May 12th. 
The Pied Wheatear — Oe^ianthe picata (Blj-th). 
A male was seen on April 9th on the boulder-strewn base of the hill near Pen- 
dreathan. 
