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Ambala and Kalka in March 1866; and Dr. Scott told me that he 

 had occasionally seen specimens in the immediate neighbour- 

 hood of Ambala itself." 



60o. The Yellow-bellied Flycatcher — Chdidorhynx kypo.xanthwn 

 (Blyth.) 



JSot uncommon ; several were observed at Chandighar in the 

 low-hill jungles on 13th February ; single examples were also 

 observed as follows : at Chandighar on 9th November, Bilaspur 

 on 26th November, and at Mubariqpur on 19th and 21st of 

 February. It is a bold self-possessed bird with little fear of 

 human intruders and pirouettes and spreads its wings and 

 tail with all the grace of a lihijAdura ; it also sallies into the air 

 ' after insects like the typical flycatchers. 



In the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, Vol. 

 XXiV, p. 357, Mr. A. E. Jones records that he obtained a speci- 

 men of this flycatcher near Ambala on 30th January 1915. 



604. The White-browed Fantail Flycatcher — RMpidura albifrontata, 



Frankl. 



Common and generally distributed throughout the district ; I 

 also met with one in Kasauli on 8th March. A nest with 3 fresh 

 eggs was found in the District Board garden built on a bough of 

 a large Eucalyptus tree about 20 feet from the ground on 13th 

 April. 



Beavan says " also procured by me at Ambala, at the same 

 time as the preceding [i.e., R. albicollis.'], my first specimen 

 being killed on the 30th October 1866, but it was apparently 

 not so commonly distributed." 



605. The White-throated Fantail Flycatcher — Rhipidura albicollis. 



(Vieill.) 



So far Ambala is the only district in the Punjab where I have 

 found this fantail fljcatcher to be common ; it is apparently 

 more migratory than the last species and probably deserts the 

 district during the hot weather. At any rate there were none at 

 Chandighar at the end of March, though it had been as com- 

 mon as the last species there in November and February. It 

 was also common at Mubariqpur in November and February, 

 at Jagadri and Bilaspur in November,'at Kalka in December, 

 and a few were met wirh in Ambala on various dates between 

 23rd December and 29th January. 



Beavan says : " not uncommon about Ambala in October and 

 November 1866, my first specimen being procured there on the 

 29th October." 



608. The Common Pied Bush-chat — Pratincola cnprata (L.) 



Beavan writes: " Kalka, April 1, 1867, this species is tolerably 



abundant about here now they are plentiful between this 



and Dhurniinpore " ; he also describes a female he obtained at 

 Ambala on 12th November 1866. I found the species to be 

 plentiful along the Kalka — Kasauli Boad and in Kasauli itself 

 from 5th to 10th March, and it was probably about to breed. I did 

 not meet it in the Kalka nulahs in December. Otherwise in 

 the plains, I only met with a male on 10th December and a few 

 others from March 23rd, until my departure. For the most part 

 it is probably a summer visitor only to the district. 



