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Lieut. C. H. T. Whitehead on the 
[782.] Petronia stulta. The Pock-Sparrow. 
Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. 485 (winter visitor to 
Gil git). 
599. Ad. Banda, 2000 ft., 19th February. 
Major Magrath first met with a flock of this species 
in February 1906 feeding in a stubble near Kohat. It is 
apparently a regular winter visitor, more common in the 
desolate country south of Banda than elsewhere. I found it 
very wary and generally feeding in young crops in flocks of 
fifteen or twenty. 
[[785.] Montifringilla adamsi Moore. Adams’s Moun¬ 
tain-Finch. 
I came on a small flock of Mountain-Finches on the 
2nd of August on a grassy knoll at an altitude of 10,000 feet 
in the Safed Koh. From their markings and colouring I 
attribute them to this species, but they were rather wild and 
I did not secure one, and do not therefore feel justified in 
entering the species on the list.] 
[787.] Fringillauda sordida. Stoliczka’s Mountain- 
Finch. 
Fulton, J. B. N. H. S. xvi. p. 55 (common in summer 
from 10,000 to 14,000 ft.) ; Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 485 
(breeds in Kashmir). 
136. Ad. Samana, 6500 ft., 7th March. 
642, 645. (J d ad. Samana, 6500 ft., 5th March. 
643, 644. Ad. Samana, 6500 ft., 5th March. 
During the intense cold in March 1906, when the snow 
was lying deep round Fort Lockhart, Major Magrath 
noticed small flocks of these birds picking up scraps round 
the cook-house door and shot one. They left when the 
snow melted. The following winter I was stationed there, 
but did not meet with a single specimen. In March 1908, 
however, I spent a couple of days there and found large 
flocks feeding on fallow land ; curiously enough, the weather 
was comparatively warm then and there was no snow lying 
on the ground. 
