to ' The Birds of India.' 133 



sent it to Viscount Walden. I killed one in brushwood on the 

 skirts of a pine-forest, at about 9000 feet elevation, but also 

 saw it at a still greater elevation. I had not previously seen any 

 specimens, except from Darjeeling. Mr. Hume also has recently 

 had specimens sent him from Kashmir. 



343. Myiophonus temminckii. 



Extent of wing 21 inches. In the cold weather I have found 

 this bird in various localities in the North-western Provinces, viz. 

 near Saharanpore, in the Bijnour district, and also in the Pun- 

 jab. I found its nest near Mussooree, in a hole in a cliff at the 

 very edge of the Batta waterfall. It contained four young 

 ones. 



344. Hydrornis nipalensis. Figured by Gould, B. Asia, 

 pt. i.pl. 2. 



The name given to this bird at Darjeeling by the Bhooteeas 

 is Tubia kanring, 



345. Pitta bengalensis. 



The name adopted by Mr. Elliot, in his valuable monograph 

 of this group, for this species is Brachyurus coronatus, Miiller. 

 Mr. Blanford found black ants in one specimen, white ants in 

 others. He states this in reference to a remark by Wallace 

 that, though called Ant-tlirushes, he had never found that they 

 had eaten ants, but simply Coleoptera. 



I omit to mention the beautiful Pitta cyanea, Blyth, from 

 Burmah, figured by Gould, B. Asia, pt. i. pi, 3. 



347. Hydrobata asiatica. 



The bird described by Stoliczka, no. 95 of his list, is certainly 

 the young of this bird, as has been already pointed out by 

 Viscount Walden. 



I looked in vain for either of the two other species of Dipper 

 in the higher valleys of Kashmir and the Punjab ; but Dr. Sto- 

 liczka was more fortunate ; for he found Hydrobata cashmirensis 

 in the north of Kashmir, and also high up the valley of the 

 Sutlej. 



350. Zoothera monticola. 



The tail-feathers are obsoletely barred on their outer webs. 



