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No. 1045. — The Black-capped Kingfisher — (Halcyon pileata). — These birds 

 were not uncommon in the Myittha Division, and I saw them on several 

 occasions. On 14th April 1907, I obtained a single fresh egg from a hole about 

 18 inches in length in a sand bank. 



No. 1092. — European Nightjar — (C'aprtmulgus europaus). —Two eggs, not 

 quite fresh, and the parent bird at Mayniyo. 16th May 1907. 



No. 1096. — The Great-eared Nightjar — (Lyncornio cervlniceps). — I got four 

 nests of this bird in the Myittha Division. The first egg was received on 15th 

 March 1907, and was brought by a coolie, who said he had found two, but 

 broke the other ; it was hard set. A second sintfle haxA sot- o~™ ™oo i ux 



ERRATA. 



Vol XVIII. page 494.— Miscellaneous Note No. X.-The 

 remarks as to the nests and eggs of No. 73, The Necklaoed Laugh- 

 in* Thrush (Garrulax moniliger), beginning at line 16 from bottom 

 ofpage, should be read as belonging to No. 67, The White-browed 

 Laughing Thrush (Dryonastes sannio). 



Editors. 



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surprised to hear the unmistakeable harsh note of Acrocephalus stentoreus 

 (the Indian Great Reed Warbler) sounding from several directions, and on 

 searching round about wherever the birds were calling, several nests with young 

 and at last, three nests with fresh eggs, were discovered and the birds secured. 

 The nests were all placed rather low down, within three feet of the water, in 

 more or less detached clumps of reed inside very dense reed beds and seemed 

 to be somewhat smaller and made of finer (or less coarse) grasses than those I 

 have seen in Kashmir. The birds too are somewhat smaller, measuring 7-3 in 

 length against 7-7 as given in Oates and Blanford, but in other respects such as 

 wing and bill measurements and colouring agree perfectly with their descrip- 

 tion , and the eggs resemble those I have taken numbers of in Kashmir. 



I should be glad to know if this bird has been recorded before as breeding 

 in India, as although abundant in Kashmir in summer and also reported from 

 Sind I am not aware that it has been obtained except as a cold weather 

 visitant or occasional summer straggler in Upper India? 



S. L. WHYMPER. 

 Jeolikote. August 31st, 1907. 



