j62 I'isils 1(> McDihcrs' .\7'ia)-ics. 



Slri|)(.' lioaded ( H'osbeal^s [I'lilinsplza :^iil(iris\. 



Twites (Lin at a flaviros/ris). 



(irey-licadcd Sparrows {i'asscr (lilliisiis). 



J'led-headed Hunting (Entbcriza lutcohi) 



Java Sjjarrows (Miiiiia oryzii'ora). 



Russ' Weaver {Qiiclca nissi). 



Mistlc-Tlirusli {Tiinliis ^'isriroriix). 



Ring Ouzels [T . torquatus). 



Shore I,;iri<s (Otocorys al/^cstris). 



Cabot's Tragopan {Tnii^^nf^ini caboti). 



W'liite-lireasted Water-Tlen (Aiiiatironiis pliooiicnra). 



All the roof supports, few silver poplar but mostly 

 willow, have i^rown and make excellent cover and nesting" sites 

 for the passerine species. 1 fain would describe, if 1 could, the 

 shallow stream running" down one side of the aviary, startin,^' 

 just to the left of the reed-bed pond at the top of. and disappear- 

 iuij; at the bottom end of the aviary, amid the sea-i^ravel, findin;^' 

 its way, of course, into the small lake-like pond of open-water, 

 which adjoins (meets) the sea-gravel and has a background of 

 reeds and other herbage, while stretching" away on the right is ri 

 stretch of reedy, flag'g'y, weedy growth, and amid this T watched 

 the waders pass to and fro — while many (most of them) ar " 

 resident species; how seldom we see them, and how they differ 

 in form and deportment from the more in evidence British 

 species. 



There were other Rails (Water-Hens) in the aviary, but 1 

 only caught a momentary glim]:)se of the White-breasted Water- 

 Hen (an Indian species which, T think, Mr. Shore Baily got 

 from me): they had an ample cover, and appeared and disap- 

 peared as easily as does the English Moorhen at home on its 

 n.ative heath. T have no note of the other species, as I only 

 listed what T saw. 



Even now I've not described that streamlet running the 

 entire length of the aviary, save to state where it began and 

 ran to. It was a rtmning length of open and cover on one 

 side the streamlet or the other: here a small cltnnii of willows, 

 their leaves flicking the sitrface of the stream (not much water 

 there though), there a bunch of reed, now a series of flags, and 

 water dock does the needful, both for picturesque effect and 

 l^iactical purpose. The birds certainly did wade and bathe here, 

 pa;:serines as well as waders — what a foraging ground it was for 



