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dead pine from which he launches himself into the air at the buzzing gnats 

 around him. I did not look for nests. After rain this flycatcher takes its food 

 to a great extent from the ground and rocks. 



(568). Cyornis superciliaris.- -The handsome little White-browed Blue 

 Flycatcher is one of the familiar birds on the hill. The nesting season is May 

 and June. The nest, a neat little cup-shaped structure of strips of bark and 

 grass, is commonly built under a piece of projecting bark of the wild cherry 

 tree, sycamore or chestnut. Sometimes in the hollow trunk of a tree shrub. 

 The eggs are usually four in number. 



(579). Stoparola melanops. — The beautiful Verditer Flycatcher is fairly 

 common. It is less like a Flycatcher in habits than others of the family and is 

 rarely seen to return to the perch which it has just quitted, but catches its food 

 flying from tree to tree. 



(598). Terpsiphone paradisi. — On July 9th I saw a female Paradise Fly- 

 catcher hawking dragon-flies near the waterfalls on the Sufed Pani stream 

 above Kala Pani. 



(608). Pratincola caprata.— ■Below 5,000 feet one meets with the Pied 

 Bushchat. This and the next species meet at about 5,000 feet. 



(610). Pratincola maura. — At about 5,000 feet the Indian Bushchat is com- 

 mon and nests freely on the bush-clad hill sides. 



(615). Oreicola ferrea. — One of the commonest and most familiar birds on 

 top of the hill is the Dark Grey Bushchat. When his mate is sitting on her nest, 

 the male is invariably to be seen on top of the nearest tree flirting his tail and 

 singing his rather pretty little song of " Tltheratu-chak-tew-tltatit", with 

 variations. If one approaches their nest the parents become greatly excited 

 perching on the nearest bushes flirting their tails and making a " geezing " noise 

 something like the winding of a watch. The breeding season commences at the 

 end of May. The nest is made of grass and bents, lined with a few feathers 

 and placed under a stone, in a cleft in a rock, in a hollow in a bank and some- 

 times at the bottom of a tiny bush or on the ground under a bush. The eggs 

 are usually four in number, sometimes five. Occasionally one or two eggs in a 

 clutch are much bluer than the remainder. Owing to the stupidly open situa- 

 tions often selected, the nests are much harried by jungle crows, mischievous 

 boys and egg collectors. Out of 13 nests found I think only one pair succeeded 

 in bringing off a brood. The young apparently leave the nest at an early stage 

 and before they can properly fly. They remain in thick cover for some days 

 where the parents brine them food. The common cuckoo often deposits its 

 eggs in the nests of this species. 



(630). Henicurus maculatus.—l saw two or three examples of the Western 

 Spotted Forktail on the Sufed Pani stream, above Kala Pani on July 9th. 



(637). Microcichla scouleri.— The Little Forktail is fairly common on the 

 above stream and I watched some of them for some time. Although these 

 forktails are constantly entering the water to bathe, I did not actually see them 

 do so (so as to wet their feathers) in search of food. They however commonly 



