412 Major C. H. T. Marshall on the Birds of Charahn. 



of March, when a pair came to my Chamba garden. They 

 were evidently passengers to the higher forests. 



254. Upupa epops. " Sukdudu.^' 



The Hoopoe comes to the town of Chamba for the summer, 

 A pair breed in a stone wall by my house every April, 



256. Lanius lahtoea, 



257. Lanius erythronotus, 



258. Lanius tephronotus. 



260. Lanius vittatus. 



The Shrikes are only found in the Ravi valley in the sum- 

 mer ; they breed near the town. 



269. Volvocivora melaschistus, 



273, Pericrocotus brevirostris, '' Masti.'' 



275. Pericrocotus roseus, 



278, buchanga albirictus, 

 A few in the warm valleys, 



280, BucHANGA LONGicAUDATA, " Gunkat," 

 Common about Dalhousie. I found tw^o or three nests 

 there in oak trees in my garden, placed, as usuab at the 

 extreme end of a thin bough high up, fixed into a fork, the 

 hen invariably sitting with her tail along the bough, so as to 

 conceal herself. 



288. TcHiTREA PARADisi. " Puui piuja," 

 A pair bred in my garden at Chamba in the end of April, 

 I have never seen this species here in the winter, 



291. Leucocerca fuscoventris. 



292. Leucocerca albofrontata, 



295. Cryptolopha cinereocapilla. 



296. Hemichelidon fuliginosus. 



297. Alseonax latirostris, 



I shot one of these birds on the 28th of October near the 

 town of Chamba. 



