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nest, not coming back the next day. On a subsequent visit to Loilem I managed 

 to shoot a Pomatorhinus within a quarter of a mile of the same spot. I forwarded 

 the skin to E. C. Stuart Baker who kindly identified it for me as £ P. nuchalis. 

 As it is highly improbable that either Schisticeps or Olivaclus inhabit the same 

 jungle, I think it is safe to record the nesting of P. nuchalis. The nest was cup- 

 shaped, composed of grass and leaf stems, and placed in a bush about 2 feet 

 from the ground. The eggs, three in number (incubated), are glossy-white and 

 measure about 1" X '72." 



H. H. HARINGTON, Captain, 

 Monywa, l&th September 1903. 



No. VII— THE KOEL LAYING IN THE NEST OF RICA 

 RUSTIC A, THE MAGPIE. 



As neither Hume nor Oates mentions the koel as making use of the magpie 

 as a foster-parent, it may be worth while recording the fact. In March 1903 

 I got two magpies' nests : one containing three magpies and two koels' eggs, the 

 other five magpies and one koel's egg ; in the latter case, the magpies' eggs were 

 practically fresh (no traces of blood), while the koel's egg was well incubated, the 

 young bird being well developed, showing that the koi'd's eggs must hatch out 

 well before the foster-parent's eggs, thus giving the young koel a better chance 

 of kicking out his young foster brothers and sisters. 



H. H. HARINGTON, Captain. 

 Monywa, 16</j September 1903. 



No. VIII— BIRDS-NESTING IN GARWHAL. 



The following notes on some rather uncommon nests may be of interest to 

 same of our members. They were nearly all taken between May 24 and June 5 

 of this year at an elevation of between 11,000 and 13,000 feet in Garwhal. 



Graculus eremita. Red-billed Chough. — Two nests were found in a cave 

 on May 25 at 12,500 feet ; unfortunately they had hatched out and the young 

 birds were pretty well fledged. 



Anthus rosaceus. Hodgson's Pipit. — There were a good many of these 

 birds on the grassy slopes immediately above the forest and below the snow, 

 but at first they were mostly in parties of four or five and it was not until June 2 

 that I found a nest with three fresh eggs at about 12,500 feet and secured 

 the bird after a terribly cold twenty minutes in snow and rain. The same day, 

 and not far from the first, a half-built nest of the same species was found, so I 

 am inclined to think they were only just beginning to breed, as we had searched 

 similar slopes very carefully without success though seeing plenty of the birds. 

 The nest was a very neat grass nest placed at the foot of a tuft of grass close 

 to a stream, and the eggs, which measured -78 by - G2, were greyish white freckled 

 and spotted all over, though chiefly at the larger end with two shades of pur- 

 plish brown ; on two of them there were zig-zag black hair lines. 



