MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 355- 



Since the first part of this paper was written I have made the following fur- 

 ther notes : — 



Turdas viscivorus — Missel Thrush.' — I found a nest of this bird this year, 

 placed in a juniper tree about ten feet from the ground, at about 8,000 feet 

 elevation. It contained four eggs slightly incubated on May 1st. 



Oriolus hundoo — Indian Oriole. — This bird is much more common than usual 

 this year. I have seen three or four pairs near Quetta about May 10th. 



Sylvia Jerdoui — The Eastern Orphean Warbler. — I found a nest of this bird 

 on May 17th this year ; it was placed at the end of a drooping branch of a fair- 

 sized tree, about ten feet from the ground and rather difficult to get at : the ne&t 

 was composed of thin sticks outside, and lined with fibres ; there were r.o 

 feathers or hair in its composition ; it was of rather flimsy construction. The 

 bird was sitting on the nest at the time, and I had no difficulty in identifying it, 

 more especially as I know the bird well. The nest contained three nearly 

 fresh eggs, rather broad ovals, white with spots of two or more shades 

 of green ; the spots were thicker towards the large end, but nowhere 

 very thick. 



Saricola deserti — The Desert Chat.— I found a nest of this bird on May 24th» 



It was placed on the side of a bare bank of mud about ten or fifteen feet high, 



and wa^ concealed under the root of a small dead shrub ; it was composed of 



roots and fibres, and contained three young birds nearly fledged. 



I have also made sure of the large Eagle of these parts since I sent my note?. 



A Pathan brought one in the other day, which I had no difficulty in identifying 



as a male Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaelus. I have little doubt that the egg^ — 



one last year and one this — belong to this bird. The Pathan who brought the 



eggs showed me the nest this year, high up on a cliff and some way in the hills, 



and assured me that it belonged to the same sort of bird that he had shot and 



brought in to me. 



T. E. MARSHALL, Capt., R.A. 

 Quetta, June, 1903. 



No. XL— SAMBAR KILLED BY WILD DOGS. 



It may interest the members of the Society, and perhaps call forth some per- 

 sonal experiences, if I give the following short account of a sambar (Cervus 

 unicolor) that I found killed by wild dogs in the Poonassa division of the Nimar 

 district, Central Provinces, on the 26th May this year, while on a short shooting 

 trip to the Nerbudda Valley. I had sent my pony on by a short cut to a pool, 

 while I took a round of the hills looking for sambar and bear, and getting 

 back to this pool about 11-30 could not at first see the extra men and syce with 

 the pony, as they had gone on some little distance from the water, half lying in 

 which I found a full-grown sambar stag with horns in velvet. The villager 

 whom I had sent with the syce and pony to the pool then pointed out some 

 reddish jackal-like forms sneaking about in the bushes to the right, and these 

 I made out to be three wild dogs. I then sent all the men, except the shikari, 

 away and tried and did succeed in getting shots at two of the dogs, who although 

 loth to go away yet kept to the undergrowth, so that my 303 bullets split up on 



