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her, but when we skinned her, we found two marks just above the fetlock joint 

 of her fore feet which looked very much like those left by the poison fangs 

 of a cobra. It got dark before we had time to examine her internal organs to 

 see whether they were all right, and before next morning jackals or something 

 of the kind had finished off what was left of her. While we were skinning the 

 dead animal the living one slipped away. 



W. G. BETHAM, 

 Divisional Forest Officer. 

 Ahmednagar, 30th December 1907. • 



[ Mr. W. G. Betham writes on the 28rd March 1908 as follows:— 

 " I should like to add that, a few days back, in a country thick with black buck I was 

 talking on the subject to some of the country people, and their answer was ' we cannot tell 

 what becomes of the animals. When wolves run off with a sheep or a goat, we almost 

 always find traces of the dead animal, a foot or a bit of skin or something, but we never 

 come across any such remains of antelopes,' and I can corroborate this from my own 

 experience. I have often come across the remains of goats and sheep carried away and 

 eaten by wolves, but never anything that could be identified as the remains of an antelope. 

 It is really most extraordinary what becomes of them. One ought to come across a horn 

 now and again, but I never have and I have never come across anyone who has, i.e., the 

 horn of an antelope either Black Buck or Chinkara, in the open plains. Horns of sambhar 

 (or rather antlers) and of cheetal are frequently picked up. It would be interesting to know 

 if anyone has ever picked up the horns of a Black Buck or a Chinkara? I fancy that my 

 facilities for picking them up have been as good as any man's." ] 



No. X. -NOTES ON NIDIFICATION OF VARIOUS BIRDS IN THE 

 UPPER CHINDWIN AND AT MAYMYO, UPPER BURMA. 



No. 67. — White-browed Laughing Thrush — (Dryonostes sannio). — This bird 

 fairly swarms in and around Maymyo. The only other Laughing Thrush found 

 here appears to be 



No. 73. — Necklaced Laughing Thrush — (Garrulax moniliger) which is scaice. 

 I found numerous nests during May 1907 : they are placed usually in low 

 bushes, often wild raspberry bushes are chosen, near the ground as a rule, and 

 there is little attempt at concealment. The nests are rather untidy, made of 

 coarse grass and roots, and occasionally small twigs, and lined with finer leaf 

 stalks and roots. The normal clutch appears to be three and the eggs vary 

 from pale blue to pure white, the blue eggs being much less common than the 

 white ones. 



No. 228. — Swinhoe's White-eye — (Zosterops simplex). — I found three nests of 

 this little bird, two during May and one in July 1907 at Maymyo. The first 

 two contained two, and the last one three, eggs. The first one found was 

 practically inaccessible, and the egg got broken ; the other two were in low 

 bushes. 



No. 958. — Northern Pale-headed Woodpecker — (Gecinulus graniia). — A nest, 

 containing three fresh eggs, was taken from a hole in a small hollow tree on 

 21st March 1907. The nest hole was only about 3 feet from the ground : 

 elevation 2,500 feet, Upper Chindwin. 



