.')22 JOURNAL, BOMB A Y NA TURA L HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol XIX. 



these animals appears much brighter and larger than at other times. This is 

 very noticeable in bright sunlight when the white can be seen at a great distance. 

 By watching this animal in captivity I found that when alarmed the white 

 hair would bristle outwards in a peculiar way giving this effect. 



F. M. BAILEY, Lieutenant. 



G-YANTSE, Tibet. 25//< August 1908, 



No. VI.-COLOUR VARIETY OF INDIAN HOUSE CROW. 



I send herewith the skin of a common Indian House Crow (^Corvus splendens) 

 shot in the Jullundur district, Punjab. Its colouring is so strange that I hope 

 it will be of interest to the Society's Museum. 



L. C, GLASCOCK. 



Phillaur, Pdn.jah. 

 19^/t February 1909. 



[The specimen sent is curiously coloured, being dark cinnamon on the head, throat, wing 

 coverts, and abdomen, the remainder being pale cinnamon. In the Society's collection there is 

 a specimen coloured in the same manner but paler on the neck. There is also a skin of a 

 beautiful creamy white specimen obtained in Bombay.— Eds.] 



No, VII.— ON THE OCCURRENCE OF CERTAIN BIRDS IN 

 THE DARBHANGA DISTRICT, TIRHUT. 



On the morning of the 4th February, my shikari brought me in a bird, which 

 I found to be Chibia hottentotfa (The Hair-crested Drongo) shot within three 

 miles of the Factory. I have found this a most uncommon bird in this 

 district. 



On the 11th of the same month, my collector brought me in a male of 

 Emberiza pusilla (The Dwarf Bunting). He says it was all by itself but I 

 daresay he overlooked its mate. This bird has been recorded from Purneah 

 by Jerdon,but that is the only occurrence in the plains, according to Oates in 

 the Fauna of British India, Vol. II, and so its turning up here is an interest- 

 ing fact. 



I recorded the occurrence of a single Vanellufi vulgaris (Lapwing) in this 

 district on the 8th August 1903 (see Jour., Bom. Jsat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XVI. 

 page 74) and have now to record another .specimen being procured, but this 

 time near .Tainagar in the Madhubani Sub-division. Both specimens are in my 

 collection. 



CHAS. M. INGLIS. 



Baghownie Factory, 

 Laheria Serai, 11^/^ February/ 1909. 



