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Lieut. C. H. T. Whitehead on the 
777. <$ ad. Kohat, 1760 ft., 2nd April. 
A common summer visitor to the District, arriving about 
the 1st of April. It usually breeds in trees, but the demand 
for nesting-sites seems to be greater than the supply, one nest 
that I found being built after the fashion of that of Passer 
domesticus, and placed conspicuously in the top of a thorn- 
bush. It contained four fresh eggs. I shot the hen on her 
return, to make quite sure of her identity. 
[776.] Passer domesticus. The House-Sparrow. 
Rattray, J, B. N. H. S. xii. p. 340 (Quetta : common) ; 
Marshall, op. cit. xiv. p. 604 (very common, but in summer 
only) ; Pulton, op. cit. xvi. p. 54 (summer visitor only); 
Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 485. 
791. B ad. Kohat, 1760 ft., 16th March. 
755. d ad. „ „ 27th March. 
Major Magrath writes of this species in Kohat as 
follows :—“ The usual pest and only too common. In April 
and early in May vast flocks of a migratory race of this 
species pass through the District in company with the next 
and the flocks of Pastor roseus already mentioned. Numbers 
of them are slaughtered along with the two latter. Does 
not winter on the SaiMana.” 
These two examples belong to a melanistic variety not 
uncommon round Kohat. 
[778.] Passer hispaniolensis. The Spanish Sparrow. 
Watson, J. B. N. II. S. xv. p. 145 (large flocks from 
October till December : Chaman) ; Fulton, op. cit. xvi. p. 54 
(passes through Chitral in April and October) ; Ward, 
op. cit. xvii. p. 485 (met with in July). 
676. ad. Thall, 2550 ft., 14th March. 
I will again quote from Major MagratKs excellent 
notes :—Mixed up with flocks of the last species, numbers 
of the present occur on the spring migration. At the 
height of the migration vast flocks of Sparrows in company 
with flocks of Pastor roseus pour into the station at sundown 
to roost. The combined noise of these birds before they 
have settled down to sleep is indescribable, and the smell 
