168 Birds In ajid About the Station. 



The Great-billed Flycatcher: I have had this bird 

 about two years and it is the only specimen of its kind I 

 have ever seen. It appears to be quite hardy and very easy 

 to keep; I simply feed it the same as my Nightingales;, as 

 it does not care for any kind of fruit or sop. In deportment 

 it is very like our British Flycatchers. A description of the 

 bird is quite unnecessary with Mr. Goodchild's life-like portrait 

 of the bird before us. 



Birds in and about the Station (Bakloh, Punjab). 



By Capt. G. a. Perreau, F.Z.S. 



Bulbuls. The Himalayan Black Bulbul (Ui/pslpcfrs 

 psaroides) is common in small flocks in the Station in spring 

 and autumn, going but very little lower down in the winter 

 and but little higher up in the summer. The al)ove rather 

 gives the impression that this bird is practically a resident 

 species, which is by no means the case, as I have seen it at 

 over 8,000 feet and at a bit under 5,000 on the same day 

 in summer, and it goes down in winter almost into the plains. 



It is a cheery, noisy liird, with a variety of calls. 

 In Black Bulbul country one is pretty safe to attribute a 

 strange note to this bird. One of the calls is very like the 

 bleating of a kid, in some parts the natives call it the Goat- 

 bird. As a rule it frequents the tops of liigh forest trees, in 

 summer at any rate, but of course 'the food supply regulates its 

 habits. It feeds chiefly on berries and fruit, though it prob- 

 ably goes in for insect diet during the breeding season. Still 

 even at that season I have found it ignore a tree -trap 

 (my own invention or rather adaptation) baited with a meal- 

 worm or caterpillar when it was readily captured in ' a 

 similar trap baited with berries. In captivity it takes readily 

 to and seems to do well on bread and milk. The natives do 

 not appear to kee& this species but that, as my friend Mr. 

 Appleby thinks, is probably because they are not easy to catch. 

 However, Mr. Kennedy and I found the flue -net most effective 

 and we soon had the half-dozen he had decided on taking 

 home with him. I hope they have arrived safely by now, 

 though I doubt if they were worth the trouble. It is' an 



