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seem to be residents at that height and upwards. Iti spite of 

 thei]' retiring habits, I certainly should have notieed them if 

 they, like many hill birds, came dowji lower in winter. 



Description: Below bright rufous; above greyish 

 brown; head black; tail rufous with a black band near the 

 blue tip; the wing pattern has white, blue, chestnut, and black 

 in it Length nearly 9 inches, tail 4. 



Since writing the above, I have seen more of these 

 fascinating birds in a wild state. A small party visited the 

 compound this winter, and were very much in evidence, quite 

 contrary to my previous experience of them higher up in the 

 summer. 'Ihey proved easy to capture, especially after the 

 first one fell a victim, being very sociable birds, They took 

 very well to captivity, getting on to bread and milk at once. 



The Indian Wiiite-uie (Zoaierops palpebrosa) . J have 

 already written about at some length. Our esteemed Editor, 

 in the Editorial of the June number, mentioned that a pair 

 of mine had nested. In continuation I can add that incubation 

 lasted ten days and that the three young only lived a few 

 days. Times were too strenuous to give them a chance. As 

 regards my notes about a seasonable change ol plumage, Major 

 Harrington writes in the Bombay Natural History Journal that 

 he made a somewhat similar observation in Burinah, but the 

 chestnut was found to wash out on the application of a damp 

 cloth, indicating that the colouring was due to pollen. 1 think 

 that is the correct solution as I found the same with a bird 

 caugh: this year. This bird had very little colour on it, in 

 fact I saw no really bright birds this year; the chestnut was 

 not noticeable except in the hand, and was readily removed 

 with a damp cloth. •The colour on the birds I got last year 

 did not wash out, not easily at any rate. 



The Fike-cap (Cephalopyrus flammiceps), 1 saw for 

 the first time in Bakloh in May, 1909, apparently on their way 

 up the hill. They were on, a floAvering shrub with some White- 

 eyes. I caught one to have a closer look at it. It was not 

 nearly so lovely as another of that party, and others 1 have 

 since seen in Dalhousie quite eclipsed this bird, Avhich jnust 

 have been in the moult. ^I was very tempted to keep some 

 I caught, but at that time I was trying hard to avoid the 



