1872.] F. Stoliczka — -Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kachh. 245 
602. Aobodboma campestbis. Common. 
646. Pabus nuciia i. is. 
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 2T to 2'25 ; tarsus 065 ; bill at front 0 - 3 5. Dill 
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 Jordon’s description and figure of a South Indian example, 
but both evidently are the same species. 
663. Cobvtjs (Anomalocobax) imptjdictis, Hodgs. 
This name is adopted by G. II. Gray (Handl., II, 14) for the Indian 
crow, O. splendens, Tem., being referred to Java and Sumatra. It is the 
only representant of the Corvidce, but is very common throughout Kachh. 
684. Acbldothebes tbistis. 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 arundinaceous 
forest, with the peculiar rapid turn in then' flight, exactly as Sturnus vul- 
garis does in Europe. 
The entire plumage is much duller in winter than in summer, and is 
exactly like that of A. fuse, us. 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 
