MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 983' 



and f) inches in girth. The horns were measured by myself with a stocl tape 

 while still fresh and in the hands of a taxidermist in Mcoiut. I have not 

 heard of any Chinkara head larger than this and doubt if such has been 

 obtained. 



R. M. BURTON, Ma.jok, i.a. 

 Mekrut, Wth September 1909. 



[According to RowLand V^ ard's lixcords of Blq Game, the record Indian Cazelle head 

 rneasuea ir| wi'h a circumference • f 4j inches. It bel ngs t Mai- r P. C. Pain. Anoiher 

 head of the same lensrih but half an inch smalld in girih was killed at Ferozepoie and is 

 in the Mess of the 14ih Sikhs.— Editors.] 



No. X.— THE WALL CREEPER (TinnODROMA MVRaRIA) IN 



LYALLPUR. 



I am sending a bird I shot last weather in this district (Lyallpur) for idea- 

 tifioation. I first saw it n June at this place, Kotkhudayar. It spent its time 

 flying round the "buildings here, which are all of bricks, and clinging to the ^ide8 

 of the walls where it seemed quite at home. It was alone urid made a plain* 

 tive cheeping noise which was repeated at intervals throughout the day. I 

 saw it at this bungalow for about f(.ur days when it disappeared. About three 

 or four days later I had occasion to go to a bungalow of mine which is about 

 18 miles from here when I saw the same bird again. At least I bt lieve it must 

 have been the same. I shot it and have kept its skin. I have not eecn any 

 more here since. If the skin is of any use to the Society you may Keep it. 



A. B. AITKEN. 



Kotkhudayar p. o., 

 Via Chi- NOT Road. August \^ih, 1909. 



[The bir.l sem is u Wall Crecj er {Ticlxx/r ma wurorin) and has not often been f and so 

 far 8 uth in Indi^v before As a rule this species keejis lo the hill- and only . escends t > the 

 plains during the colli weather In India this aiecies is found throughoui the 1 im.ilayas 

 and the hills f the frontier a d has been recoided daring the c Id wea.her frua Etjwah, 

 Bhutan, Doars «nd Uehra — Euitoks] 



No. XI.-SEASONAL CHA^GE ( F PLUMAGE OF THE INDIAN 



WHITE-EYE. 



In May 1901 I caught a White-eye {Zusiemps paJpehro'<a) which was visiting 

 my newly-built aviary to talk wi h some tame White-eyes I had. He had a 

 bright chescnut foreh ad I did not think much of it at the time as I did 

 not then well know this bird frcm a book point of view, though well acqua- 

 inted wih it alive both wild and in cnpiixity. He di(d soon. Not long 

 af er, I looked up the boOA and was astonished to find no mention of a chest- 

 nut-fureheaded Wnite-eye nor of a seasonal change of plumage. Till tl is year 

 (1909) no other similarlv coloured ones have been observed by mo, thongh 

 I mast confess that I did not paiticularly look out for them and that in 8ome 

 years I had no opportunity of observing White-eyes at all. 

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