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Major .Baker writing of Singapore says that tire only specimen of 

 the koel he saw there was shot by a friend in his garden and given to 

 him. 



Kershaw writes that the koel is a very common resident at Hong- 

 kong, where it lays in May. 



As I am not able to gain access to a good library, I have not beei: 

 able to collect any further data regarding the distribution and move- 

 ments of this interesting species. Were it not for Kershaw's state- 

 ment in The Ibis that the koel is a common permanent resident 

 of Hongkong I should have been inclined to think that all koels 

 undergo easterly-westerly migration every year, moving west in 

 spring and east in autumn. That such migration does occur, is 

 proved by the absence of koels at Lahore, their scarcity in Lucknow 

 during winter, and their absence from the Andamans in summer. On 

 the contrary, the fact that koels are seen all the year round in Hong- 

 kong and its vicinity seems to show that some individual? are non- 

 migratory. Why this should be I am at a loss to explain. 

 (1311;. The Red Turtle-Dove — (CEnopopelia tranqvebarica). 

 Blanford gives us the distribution of this species: — "Throughout 

 India, by no means scarce in the Punjab, Sind and L'ajputana, though 

 not known farther west. This bird was obtained at Gilgit by Bid- 

 dulph, and in Ceylon, where it appears to be very rare, by Layard. 

 It ranges throughout Burma to the Andamans and through Cochin 

 China and China to the Philippines. " Hume says that it breeds in 

 all parts of India, but is very capriciously distributed, and expressed 

 himself unable to say what kind of country it prefers and why it is 

 common in one district and rarer in the neighbouring one in which 

 all physical conditions appear identical. Jesse states that it is a com- 

 mon and permanent resident in the Lucknow district. Ferguson 

 does not mention the species in his list of the birds of Travancore. 



Ward states that it is rarely to be found in Kashmir. Osmaston 

 writes that it is " exceedingly common in and round Port Blair (An- 

 damans) breeding in April and May. This dove was rare in Hume's 

 time (187o), but has multiplied apparently with the increase in area 

 under cultivation." 



Macdonald writing of Myingyan, says : — "This at certain seasons 

 is also a common bird. Sometimes seen in large flocks but I have 

 never found the nest, nor have I been able to procure the eggs from 



