98 BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



It is a permanent resident in the hilly and wooded tracts, but is 

 merely a cold weather visitant elsewhere. They breed at the end 

 of the hot weather or the commencement of the rains, making a 

 compact, cup-shaped nest, composed of grass and leaves, lined with 

 fine grass, which is placed in hollows in banks, or between the 

 roots of trees, sometimes in crevices or niches in old walls. The eggs, 

 three or four in number, are oval in shape, measuring 0*76 inches 

 in length by 0*56 in breadth. In colour they are dingy greyish- 

 white, closely freckled and mottled with reddish brown ; some of 

 them are so thickly marked that they appear to be dingy olive-brown 

 throughout. 



Nasnch, June to August. J. Davidson, C. S. 



Khandesh „ „ 



Saugor, G. P., May and Juno. H. E. Barnes. 



ROUGH NOTES OF TRAVEL AND SPORT 

 IN KASHMIR AND LITTLE THIBET. 



Under the above title, Professor H. Littledale, of Baroda, has 

 printed for private circulation a very graphic and amusing account 

 of his experiences while in search of sport, on the northern side of 

 the Himalayas, in 1888. 



We have been allowed to make the following extracts, the first 

 of which will give our readers some idea of the competition which 

 exists between sportsmen, in order to secure the most favourite 

 shooting ground, — in this case, Dutchkut nullah in Little Thibet. 



March 26th. — Marched from Cheelan via Dars and Kerrim to 

 Godhaie. At first no road ; snow very heavy ; floundered waist-deep 

 for some miles. Below Kerrin snow light and path fairly good. 

 Dined and slept at Godhaie ; got flour, milk, and fowl . . . Had 

 written so far after turning in at Godhaie in a lumber room of the 

 lambardar's house. At 9 P. M., just as we were falling asleep, a 

 messenger came in from my shikari Nibra to say that the two 

 sahebs who were pursuing us had just arrived at Dars, and that 

 one was pushing on at once for my nullah ! No time for delay, so up 

 we got, ordered four ponies to be got ready immediately, dressed, 

 prepared some food for next day, put on our great coats and 

 mufflers, took a blanket each, and started ! Only two ponies had 



