742 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXV. 



No. III.— BLACK-HEADED STBIA (LIOPTILA CAPISTRATA) 

 IN THE JALPAIGURI DISTRICT, BENGAL. 



According to the Fauna of British India this species is obtained at 

 elevations of from 5,000 to 8,000 feet, so it is interesting to be able to 

 record it from the plains. I got a specimen to-day at Goruraara which is 

 about 13 miles from the foothills and at an elevation of only 300 feet above' 

 mean sea level. It was from this place that I recorded the occurrence of 

 the Ashy Wood Pigeon (Alsocomus pulchricollis), so evidently round about 

 here is a favourite place for birds recorded from fairly high elevations. 



CHAS. M. INGLIS. 



Camp Gt)RU]MAEA, Jalpaiguri. 

 2\st January ^SilS. 



Xo. IV.— OCCURRENCE OF THE WHITE-TAILED BLUE ROBIN 



{NOTODELA LEUCURA) IN THE BUXA DUARS 



DISTRICT, BENGAL. 



While staying with my friend Mr. E. O. Shebbeare, I.F.S., I got a male 

 of this species to-day at Jamguri, which has an elevation of about 300 

 feet and is about 13 miles from the foothills. In the Fauna of British 

 India, Gates gives it as " found from about 4,000 to 9,000 feet "; so this is 

 unusually low for it to occur. 



CHAS. M. INGLIS. 



JaMGTJRI, BuXA DUARS, 



^th January ^^l^i. 



No. v.— AN ADDITION TO THE INDIAN LIST OF BIRDS. 



1 have to record the occurrence of the Corn-Bunting, Emberiza miliaria 

 in the Jhang district of the Punjab. The species is not included in the 

 volumes on birds in the ' Fauna of British India ' series, and there appears 

 to be only one previous record of its supposed occurrence within our 

 borders. This record, relating to Sindh (' Stray Feathers,' vii, 

 114), was, however, not accepted by Hume. 



On 20th November 1917, I came upon a flock of some twelve to fifteen 

 Corn-Buntings near Massan, between the Jhelum and Chenab rivers. They 

 were feeding on waste ground, covered with bushes of desert types, near 

 water on the edge of cultivation. I secured a female; it was a little fat 

 and weighed If oz. ; there were grains of rice in the gullet. 



On the 22nd December, a party of 3 Corn-Buntings was observed (and 

 one obtained) in the same locality by Lieut. C. B. Ticehurst, m.e.o.u., v.lio 

 was spending a short spell of leave camping with me. 



HUGH WHISTLER, f.z.s., 



Indian Police. 

 Jhang, Punjab, 

 '60th December 1917. 



No. VI.— SOME FURTHER NOTES ON CUCKOOS IN MAYMYO 



When up in Maymyo this year in April and May, 1 was lucky enough to 

 tind a good many Cuckoo's eggs myself and to see several others which 

 were found. My notes may be interesting as an appendix to Mr. B. B. 

 Osmaston's notes, which appeared on page 359, of Volume XXIV of the 

 Society's Journal. 



