Firds in and about the Station. 15 



which rather surprised me. as it is decidedly one of those 

 "hairy-nosed cusses" and seemed to be even ta-^-kling the 

 soft food. However as its quarters were rather cramped even 

 for a small newly-caught bird, and as 1 wanted to stay out 

 I sent him into camp with my man with full instructions as 

 to treatment. Later on I caught the other and sent that 

 up by a coolie. My man was out getting milk or something, 

 and the coolie tried to put it in, apparently did not shut the 

 door, and both birds got away. My man swears the first 

 bird was eating soft food and I was almost inclined to be- 

 lieve him in this case. The bird had been caught in a tree 

 spring net trap, lured by a mealworm, and it was ravenous. 

 It was snowing when I pitched my camp, which', by the 

 way was not a pretenti;)us alVair, a b-vouac tent for myself 

 and a disused cowshed for the birds, my bird-man, and a 

 servant. Coolies J picked up from a village fairly near, the 

 headmen of which were only too ready to come up in the 

 evening to chat with the mad sahib and drink his whiskey 

 and ginger-wine. It was a most enjoyable three days trip. 

 I did not catch so very many birds, but what I got lived 

 well and gave no an.xiety. There were no casualties (at any 

 rate fron^. feeding) even among Red-headed Tits, birds with 

 which I had previously experienced the greatest difficulty in 

 meating olf. Wliat these Fantail Flycatchers existed on up 

 there at that time of year I do not know. In the afternoon 

 when the sun came out my second capture (not then caught) 

 seemed to be getting a certain amount of small insects over 

 a small stream, but there, had been precious little sun fcji 

 three days before. .My second capture was made in a flue 

 net, a mealworm quite failing to tempt it, f)r else the fate of 

 its partnei' had juade it wary. \'\v not had a chance ^ince of 

 catching this bird; they are not common, and trappi.ig trips 

 are still rarer, if one leaves out single days. 



Colouration: forehead and broad supercilium and whole 

 lower plumage bright yellow, u[)per-parts brown a!ul oli\'e- 

 i)rown. the feathers of the greater-coverts and tlu- tail (ex- 

 cept the middle ])air| ha\c while tips, the tail feathers are 

 while shafted. When seen from above and on the wing the 

 white tips are very conspicuous. Length about 4.7. tail 2.3 

 inches. 



{lu be continuid). 



