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with pure greens, i.e., iiol with licterozyg-ote^ and i wouhl sug-^'cst 

 liiids imported direct from Auslialia, as npccss.n-ily fuKilliiii," tliis 

 condition. The Yellows slionld be of a pu c ydlow tint, rather 

 than of a greenish yeUow. (lUOV.i (L H. KAYNOH. 



lia/.ciciiiii Eectoiy, Ma'don. 



Jan. -JVlii. l!)i;5. 



INDIAN WHITE-EYES 



Sir,- -I am mnch [deascd with the ji'alc of Z'tslcrapti jialpi'- 

 hrosa in January "B.N." — a bird that I ;.m well acquainted with 

 in the wihl state aHhough I have not yet found its nest. The colour- 

 ation of the [dale strikes me as very g-ood ])ut unfoi't.unat«ly 1 

 cannot at present coinpai'e my skins witli it as they are up in 

 Siitrolk. 1 liavc l)een luukinj;' up my notes l)ut find liiat. thei'e is 

 notiiing of value in them except that they empha i e the position cf 

 the s|iecies as a wintei- vi i'or only to the Punjab and N.W. Front- 

 ier Irovince, -whereas I be'ieve, in other parts of India it is resi- 

 dent. Tn Rawal I'indi distiid it is a very nume:ous species during 

 the cold weather, being found in large parties, which spend; their 

 ti)ne in busily seaicliiii.i,'- for fool on trees and bushes, keeping up 

 a constant chirping r.o e: on one ccc:uion I saw a party mobbing a 

 small Owl (probably Glaucidium radiatum) . In Ferozepore district 

 fui'thei- south the species was also common in the cold weathea*; 

 there, however, I noted that individua's as well as flocks were to 

 be mei: with -a fact that T had not noticed in Rawal Pindi; this 

 may, however, have l)cen due to the fa?t that I was then better ac- 

 quainted with the species. 



I did not fix the date of arrival of the speciesi, but noted 

 that il was already common at the begiiming of December; the last 

 flock noted as seen was on Ma'^ch 3rd. These dates would pro- 

 bably be extended, as Capt. Whitehead ii his Bi-ds of Kohiat, "Ibis," 

 1909, says that the species a-rives there in August but does not 

 btocome common until October, leaving about the middle of April. 



On one occasion I saw a pair of these tiny birds resting 

 side by side (aftei' the manner so beloved of smaU aviary finches) 

 on a twig in the middle of a thi'k bush. Needless to say they 

 are extremely ditTiiu't to spot when not on the move. 



Should any foi'eign member of the Society caie to exchange 

 foreign eggs, and, more especially, skins for others from the Punjab 

 I should be very happy to hear f -om him. At presojiif I\ would 

 only exchange the commonei' species. 



HUGH WHTSTLEB, 

 Battle, Sussex. (Indian Police). 



2 1th January, 1913. 



ODD BIRDS-MEMBERS' EXCHANGES 



Sir. — No doul)t many of our members have sevei'al odd birds 

 wliicli they an- desirous of either selling, exchandng, or buying the 

 opposite sex. I have at pre.sent about 30 such birds, and I sug- 



