MI.SC EL LA A i:o UH NO TEs. 491) 



A black stripe from below the eye to the nape. Ear coverts black. Chin 

 white, neck and breast grey-brown the centre of the foathers faintly 

 marked with vinous. 



Lower breast an«l sides grey. Abdomen pink. 



Scapulars grey, faintly tinged with deep green. 



Lesser wing coverts black faintly tipped with grey. 



Median coverts black at base, deep green for the last third of length, 

 narrowly tipped white. 



tireater coverts similar to the median coverts, but colours more pro- 

 nounced. 



Winglet black. 



Primaries black fading to grey near the tips, where the outer web is 

 narrowly margined with white. 



Secondaries black near shaft, both wings tinged with a dull greenish 

 blue. Tip of each feather white. 



Tertials similar to secondaries but no white on them. 



Tail — no feathers visible. 



Legs and feet almost orange now. the upper portion of the tibia covered 

 with grey feathers. 



Except for the very faint tinge of blue on the secondaries which is 

 hardly discernible except in good light, there is no blue about the young- 

 ster and the whole is as unlike the adult as one could make it. 



The nest was found in the Kangra District at an altitude of about 3,000 

 feet above sea level, between Nurpur and Kotla, and this point must be 

 about 100 miles as the crow flies, to the nearest portion of its recorded 

 range, with a succession of high ranges in between. 



I have never seen this bird in the Simla District, a portion of which 

 adjoins the U. P. but is still a long way from the nearest limit of Garhwal, 

 and it seems strange that a pair should skip so many miles of country and 

 find their way up here. 



Dharmsala, Kanoka District. C. H. DONALD, f.z.s. 



2Uh July 1917. 



No VII.— ARRIVAL OF DUCK AND TEAL IN THE DARBHANGA 



DISTRICT, BEHAR, 



The first duck seen was a female Red-crested Pochard (iVX fa rufina) which 

 was f ot on the 22nd of last month ; since then I have seen about half a 

 dozen teal, but they can hardly be said to be in yet. There is no water, at 

 least in this part of the district, except in the very big jheels, and if the 

 smaller ones are not filled up a bit before the end of the monsoon, shooting 

 is likely to be very local. 

 Baghownie Fly, Laheria Sarai, CHAS. M. INGLIS. 



2nd Auffust 1917. 



^,, VIII— NIDIFICATION OF THE LESSER OR COMMON WHIST- 

 LING TEAh {DENJJliOCrCNA JAVAXICA) A'^If BO'SELLVS 

 EAGLE iHIERAETUS FASCIATUS). 



On the 12th August 1 took a nest of the Lesser Whistling-Teal, shooting 



the bird herself as she put up her head out of the nest hole in the mango 



free. I found she was sitting <>u 10 eggs of her own, which were all a trifle 



incubated, and also two eggs of the Comb Duck, which were absolutely 



resh. Possibly this lazy domestic habit of the Comb Duck is weU known, 



