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Birds of Kohat and Kurram. 
described the bird as a new species, naming it as above in 
honour of its discoverer. 
Major MagratlPs specimens differ from the hybrid forms 
already described in being closely allied to M. leucotis and 
not to M. leucogenys. It is difficult to ascribe them to a 
hybrid form, as in the case of the Kohat birds, because 
M. intermedins does not, Major Magrath assures me, occur 
in Bannu, and M. leucogenys there is always more or less 
true to type.] 
[320.] Sitta kasiimirensis. Brooks’s Nuthatch. 
Fulton, J. B. NT. H. S. xvi. p. 48 (Chitral: very common 
from 6000 to 11,000 ft.; Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. Ill (ob¬ 
tained in April in Kashmir). 
Fairly common on the Peiwar Spur of the Safed Koh and 
in the adjoining nullahs from 7500 to 10,000 ft. 
[323.] Sitta leucopsis. The White-cheeked Nuthatch. 
Fulton, J. B. N. H. S. xvi. p. 48 (Chitral: very common 
from 7000 to 12,000 ft.) ; Battray, t. c. p. 424 (fairly com¬ 
mon above 8000 ft.: Murree Hill); Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. Ill 
(fairly common). 
This is the common Nuthatch of the Safed Koh, from 
8000 ft. to tree-limit. Its curious call-note, resembling the 
word u pain” (pronounced like the French word for 
bread 3 ’), may be heard all day long. 
[327.] Dicrurus ater. The Black Drongo, or King 
Crow. 
Battray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 338 (summer visitor to 
Thall); Fulton, op. cit. xvi. p. 48 (Chitral: common in 
summer up to 5500 ft.) ; Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. Ill (Kash¬ 
mir: occurs up to 7000 ft.). 
One of our commonest summer visitors from the plains up 
to 8500 feet in the Kurram Valley, the first birds arriving 
in the middle of March and the species becoming common a 
fortnight later. It disappears towards the end of October. 
Probably, however, the Drongo we observed above 7000 feet 
on the Safed Koh belonged to the allied species D. longi- 
caudatus , the differences not being very marked and the latter 
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