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Birds of Kohat and Karr am. 
[1310.] Turtur risorius. The Indian Ring-Dove. 
Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 344 (Thall : common) ; 
Marshall, op. cit. xv. p. 355 (common summer visitor) ; 
Fulton, op. cit. xvi. p. 60 (common in summer) ; Gumming, 
t. c. p. 691 (very rare in Seistan) ; Ward, op. cit. xvii. 
p. 943 (Kashmir). 
Abundant in summer, the majority leaving in autumn, 
though many stay for the winter. In the Kurrara Valley 
the bird is common up to Dandar, but rather scarce higher 
up. I have met with it, however, as high as 8500 feet. 
[1311.] CEnopopelta tranquebarica. The Red Turtle- 
Dove. 
Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 345 (rare at Thall); Ward, 
op. cit. xvii. p. 943 (rare in Kashmir). 
A summer visitor to the District, and fairly numerous 
from the second week in April till August. 
[1316.] Pterocles arenarius. The Black-bellied Sand- 
Grouse. 
Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. p. 345 (Thall: passes through 
in March); Marshall, op. cit. xv. p. 353 (Quetta: common 
in autumn and spring); Cumming, op. cit. xvi. p. 691 (said, 
to occur in Seistan); Ward, op. cit. xvii. p. 943 (Jummu). 
Large flocks occur in the cold weather in the fields 
around Doaba and occasionally round Lachi and Dhano. I 
flushed a bird on the 21st of June, 1906, on the stony plain 
near Dhandar in the Kurram Valley, which was possibly 
breeding in the neighbourhood. 
[1317.] Pterocles fasciatus. The Painted Sand-Grouse. 
Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. 944 (Jummu). 
A rare bird, probably resident. Mr. Donald told me that 
he had frequently flushed a pair of strange Sand-Grouse in 
the scrub-jungle west of Shinauri (3800 feet), but that for a 
long time they managed to escape. Eventually, however, 
one was brought to bag and on being compared with Hume 
and Marshall's ‘ Game Birds of India' was found to corre¬ 
spond exactly with this species. This is not the first record 
of its occurrence west of the Indus. In 1902, Major Barton, 
