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Birds of Kohat and Kurram. 
found a nest on the 14th of May containing six fresh eggs. 
A beautiful songster, singing both on the wing and on the 
ground. 
[619.] Saxicola capistrata. The White-headed Chat. 
Battray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 339 (common in winter at 
Thall : many young birds seen at Parachinar in July); 
Marshall, op. cit. xiv. p. 603 (shot one at Sibi, 5000 ft., in 
Feb.); Fulton, op. cit. xvi. p. 50 (occurs in Chitral in summer 
from 7000 to 11,000 ft.); Cumming, t. c. p. 687 (shot one 
in March: Seistan). 
302. <$ juv. Parachinar, 5700 ft., 7th July. 
435. £ ad. Banda, 1900 ft., 27th January. 
A cold-weather visitor to the District and very abundant 
from the third week in August till April, frequenting both 
desert country and open cultivated lands and especially 
common by the roadside. In the Kurram Valley it nests 
freel}'' round Parachinar from 4500 to 6500 feet, but rarely as 
high as 9000 feet. The nest, a neat grass structure, is usually 
placed in a hole in the bank of a nullah or under a stone in 
the nullah-bed, occasionally in a cairn of stones. The eggs 
are pale blue, varying a good deal in shade, marked with red 
spots also varying much in shade and distribution, and average 
*79 in. x ‘53 in. The full clutch is five. Two broods at least 
are reared in the season. 
[620.] Saxicola opistholeuca. Strickland’s Chat. 
Fulton, J. B. N. H. S. xvi. p. 50 (the commonest bird in 
Chitral, moving up or down according to season) ; Ward, 
op. cit. xvii. p. 480 (migrates through Baltistan). 
433. Ad. Hangu, 2700 ft., 27th December. 
A fairly common cold-weather visitor from September to 
the middle of April, keeping chiefly to stony ground. It 
migrates through the Kurram Valley in April. 
[624.] Saxicola cenanthe. The Wheatear. 
Ward, J. B. N. II. S. xvii. p. 481, & xviii. p. 461 (one 
shot in Ward wan in Sept. 1907) ; Perreau, t. c. p. 186 
(occurs in Chitral, specimen shot). 
702. ? . Kohat, 1768 ft., 18th March. 
