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yeai- old and can fly quite well, but it never leaves the Fort. It is quite 

 tame but does not (lare about being handled, although it will submit to 

 having the back of its head I'libbed. The last photo shews the bird in its 

 full plumage. It is now beginning to mult. 



The description of the adult bird as given in Jerdon is correct, except 

 that the cere of my bird is almost salmon-pink, and the naked part of the 

 neck is dirty white with a very slight tinge of red. The leggs are creamy- 

 white and not dusky-yellow. 



I have never seen another specimen of this vulture round Wano, though 

 the Common Brown Vulture and Bearded Vulture are common. I have 

 occasionally seen a pair of them on the banks of the Indus near Dera 

 Ismail Khan, and also near Murtaza at the foot of the hills. 



[The above was written by the late Major F. L. Hughes, 20tli Brown- 

 low's Punjabis (South Waziristan Militia) about May 1916. 



The vulture eventually disappeared in February 1917. having been in 

 Wano Fort for nearly '2 years. Major Hughes presumed that it fcew away 

 of its own accord.] 



No. IV.— OCOUIIRENCEOFTHE ASHY W00D-PIC4E0X (ALSOCOMUS 

 rULCMRICOLLLS) IN THE JALPAlGUia DISTltlCT. 



"While spending a holiday in the Duars with my friend Mr. E. O. Sheb- 

 beare of the Forest Service, he told me that he had procured this bird at 

 Gorumara on 1st May 1909. I failed to get the bird there myself and so 

 was very pleased when he sent me a skin of this bird a short time ago 

 which had also been got at Gorumara by Mr. W. P. Field and sent to 

 him for identification. Mr. Field has shot this bird before also at Goru- 

 mara during the cold weather, I miderstand, his second specimen being 

 got in March or April 1 believe. 



Gorumara is about 13 miles as the crow flies from the foot of the hills, the 

 bungalow being situated in the forest. The general level of the country 

 where the bird is got is about 80U ft. above mean sea level and so is very 

 much lower than any of the elevations givf>n by Mr. Stuart Baker in his 

 "Indian Pigeons and Doves." Mr. Baker writes '' this Pigeon is found in 

 Nepal, Sikhim, and Tibet at elevations between 7,000 and 10,000 feet, 

 possibly descending a good deal lower than this in winter. " The lowest 

 elevation mentioned by him is 4,000 feet. It will be seen from those 

 Duars specimens that this bird is got at a very low elevation in summfr and 

 not only in icinter as presumed by Mr. Stuart Baker. It would appear 

 that this bird is a permanent resident at any rate in that part of the Duars. 

 From what Mr. Shebbeare writes, I understand they are fairl3' common 

 round about Gorumara. There is no mistake in the identification as I 

 know the bird well having shot it near Darjiling. Through the kindness of 

 Mr. Shebbeare, I have been able to send this interesting note. 



CHAS. M. INGLIS. 



IJaghownik Fty., Lahekia Sakai, 

 ith June 1917. 



No. v.— THE Bl!EEDIN(i OF THE GULL-BILLED TEKN 

 (<S' TER NA A NaLLCA ) . 



As the information on record regarding the breeding of the Gull-billed 

 Tern within Indian limits appears to be confined to Hume's account of his 



