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have found many more. Most nests were within hand reach. I saw no birds 

 in white plumage. 



The Paintp:d Sand- Grouse (Pterochs fasciatus). — I found a nest with 

 3 fresh eggs, which unfortunately got broken, on the 17th February 1909. in 

 some forest land. No nest to speak of. 



The Lakge Grey-Headed Fishing Eagle (Polioaeius ichthyaetus). — On 

 the 2.^rd October, I saw a pair of these birds on a very large jhil, some 30 

 miles from this. '1 hey were very noisy, which attracted my attention, I 

 noticed they were building and saw them " m copula." The nest was 

 placed on the very top of a fairly large tamarind tree, on a small island. I 

 did not go up to it, but from below it appeared to be a huge massive platform 

 of sticks. I sent my orderly out on the 7th November, when he obtained 3 

 beautifully fresh eggs. He told me the birds were very bold, that he had to 

 take up a man with a long stick to ward off their attacks. This is the only occa- 

 sion I have noticed these birds round here. 



R, M. BETHAM. Liedt.-Col., 



The 101st Gi-enadiers. 



Mhow, C.I., Wi November 1909. 



No. XVI.— BIRDS* NESTING IN GARHWAL. 



The following notes of some nests obtained at the snows this year may be 

 of interest to some of your readers. 



The Snow Partridge li.erwa nif/cohi). — I found four nests during June at 

 between thirteen and fourteen thousand feet ; five appear to be the full clutch, 

 and eggs were hard-set by the end of June, newly hatched chicks being seen 

 early in July. The nests were all placed under overhanging ledges and were 

 pretty well lined with moss and leaves ; they are well concealed and the bird 

 sits very close, but the cock-bird rather gives away the nest by calling and 

 strutting about in its vicinity, however they take a lot of finding even then. 

 The eggs are decidedly large for the size of the bird, measuring 2*2 by 1-43 on 

 an average. In the " Birds of India " the ground colour is given as white ; but 

 out of 1 8 eggs there is only one that can be described as white, the ground 

 colour in all the others being a pale cafe-uu luit, and they are rather sparingly 

 speckled ai d spotted all over with reddish brown, much resembling (except in 

 being narrower) some eggs of the Koklass pheasant. 



The White-winged Grosbeak (Pycnoramphus carneipes). Several pairs of 

 these birds were first observed at about eleven thousand feet, and they gradually 

 moved up to fourteen thousand and there we marked down two nests and got 

 three fresh eggs from each on June 'J8. One nest was in a birch about 

 fifteen feet up, and the other about six feet up in tall bushes of juniper. 

 Both nests were precisely similar and very curiously made, there being a 

 sort of outer fence of prickly twigs, then twisted grass and the inner lining 

 being entirely composed of strips of juniper bark. They were very wary and 

 took a long time building. I first saw the females carrying gi-ass on June 11 



