260 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX. 



them exactly. Of the three clutches I have, two clutches correspond to the 

 second and one clutch to the third type described by Hume, but in each clutch 

 there is one egg (and in the clutch of 5 there are two) which answ^er to the 

 first type described by him. This is, I believe, what is usually found in clutches 

 of House Sparrows' eggs, at least one very lightly marked egg which is 

 usually also a trifle larger than the rest, occurring in each clutch. 



The song of this bird consists of the usual sparrow chirrups interspersed with 

 a note often repeated which exactly resembles the call-note of the Pied Wagtail. 

 but whether this is the natural note or whether the particular bird I heard was 

 mimicking the latter species, I cannot say. The birds appeared to feed on the 

 seeds of the grasses growing in the field and during the heat of the day kept to 

 the shade of the big trees which surrounded the field. I should be glad to 

 know if either of these birds are known to occur in the Punjab. 



A. J. CURRIE. 

 Lahore, 6</t October 1908. 



No. IX.— THE. BLACK-CAPPED KING-FISHER {^HALCYON 

 PILE ATA) IN THE THANA DISTRICT. 



While shooting snipe on the north side of the Thana Creek near the Colsette 

 Bunder on October 31st, I saw three Black-capped kingfishers amongst the 

 mangrove bushes and shot one of them. This kingfisher appears to be a rare 

 visitor to Western India confining itself almost entirely to the sea coast. 

 Two examples have already been obtained near Bombay — one at Kalyan and 

 the other at Revadanda in Kolaba District. 



L. H. SAVILE, 

 Port Trust Office, Bombay, 

 7th December 1908. 



No. X.-NOTE ON THE CHINESE CRIMSON HORNED 

 PHEASANT (^TR AG OP AN TEMMINCKI). 



In the last number of the Journal (Vol. xviii, p. 753) Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker 

 establishes the claim of Tragopan temmincJci to be included in the fauna of 

 British India. 



It is, however, entirely due to my own negligence that this species has not 

 before been included in the list of Indian bii-ds. 



In 1903 I received a skin of an adult male of Temminck's Tragopan from 

 Lieut. C. M. Macmullen who was then in charge of the military police at 

 Sadone, He shot it at an elevation of 9,000 feet on the mountains south-east 

 of Sad6ne in Burmese territory about a mile from the Chinese frontier. Lat. 

 25° 20' ; long. 98°. There was snow on the ground at the spot where he shot 

 this bird. The date was the 5th February 1903. 



Mr. Macmullen informed me that the horns and flags of this specimen were 

 of a bright, almost electric, blue. 



