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9. The Jackdaw — Corvus monedula, L. 



Ambala is given as the eastern limit in the plains of this 

 species (Fanna of B. 1. Birds, Vol. I., p. 23.). 



16. The Indian Tree Pie — Dendrocitta rufa (Scop.) 



Common throughout the district, including the low hill 

 Jungles about Chandighar and Kalka. Beavan records it 

 "about Ambala in 1866." 



•31.* The Indian Grey Tit — Parus atriceps, Horsf. 



A winter visitor to the plains portion of the district, where 

 1 met with it commonly from November until the 1st March; it 

 was perhaps most numerous in January and February. During; 

 the second week in March I found it common and generally 

 distributed in Kasauli where it doubtless breeds. 



99. The Himalayan Streaked Laughing Thrush — Trochalopteron 

 lineatum (Vig.) 



Found to be common on the upper parts of Kasauli Hill in 

 the second week of March. One was seen in a nullah just 

 above Kalka in the last week of December. 



105.* The Common Babbler — Argya caudata (Dum.) 



Although Beavan records this Babbler as abundant about 

 Ambala 1 found it very much scarcer than in most of the Punjab 

 districts, and indeed only met with a few individuals in the 

 plains. There were a few in the cultivation below the Kasauli 

 lload near Kalka in December. 

 107. The Large Grey Babbler — Ariji,a malcolmi (Sykes.) 



Met with fairly commonly throughout my stay in the vicinity 



of Aiiibala and in the country about Sirhind and Morinda. A 



nesfc with young was found at Ambala on the 16th of November. 



Beavan says : " First procured in the neighbourhood of 



Ambala, October 1866, where it is not uncommon." 



110. The Jungle Babbler — Crateropus canorus (L.) 



" Abundant about Ambala " (Beavan). I found it common 

 in the low hill jungle above Kalka during the last week of 

 December. 



116. The Slaty-headed Scimitar-Babbler — Pomatorhinus schisticeps, 

 Hod^s. 



On the 2Sth December I met with a pair in the bamboo and 

 Euphorbia jungle just above Kalka : they were not particularly 

 shy but kept in the thicker clumps of bamboo. 

 139.* The Yellow-eyed Babbler -Pt/ctDrhis .mient^is (Gm.) 



Occurs in the catalogue of the Scott collection with the locality 

 Ambala. 1 cannot remember meeting with the species myself. 



187. The Himalayan Whistling Thrush — Myiophoneus tennninicki, Vig. 

 This hill bird may be expected to occur throi ghout the low 

 foot hills of ilu; (list)ict in \\inier: during tie last week in 

 Decembtr 1 iound many in a nullah just above Kalka and on 

 visiting the same place on March rjth, I observed a couj'le of 

 individuals. Two were seen by the Ghag!.ar at Chandighar 

 on lith hVbruary. It probably breeds at Kasauli as I saw 

 several there in the second week of March. 



2'2Q. The Indian White-eye — Zosteroj)ii palpeb-oia (Temm.) 



JV^et viilh c( n nu-i'ly fn ni Hie end of CcUlcr until the end 

 of March at Ambala, Kupar, Mubariqpur, Chandighar, and the 



