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scarlet foathoi's on oarli side of the ooriput. My bird is a 

 hen. 



2. Tnio Yellow- NATEn Txtlt^r. (Iniliis flaviroUis) 

 is a curious and decidedly pretty little bird of much the same 

 haliits in a way as llic ^^'ilife-eve, ri>(|uii'iirir the saine food, 

 i.e., sop, fi'uit, inject tiiixlure, Avifli a few meahvornis. I 

 found them not utwoinnion near Darjeplin.q-, at 4,000, to G.OOQ 

 feet, commoner at the latter elevation. I never saw them 

 in parties like AVhite-eyes, but I only saw them just at the 

 end of the breedins: s(>a^on, when tiiey were either in pairs or 

 small parties of four or five. At the end of August I saw a 

 pair feeding barely fledged j^oung. They as a rule frequent 

 fairly high trees and were always on the move inspecting 

 flowers or the crevices among the orchids, not in bloom when 

 T was in Darjeeling. 



The figure in the plate roquii-es little description. The 

 collar is chestnut-yellow, upper parts brown and grey, shad- 

 ing off into each other and conti^asting strongly with the 

 white; of the sides of the face and lower parts, the former with 

 a beautiful silvery sheen. Dates gives the distribution as 

 the Himalayas from the Gutlej to Assam, the Khasi Hills, 

 Manipur. from 5,000 to 8 000 feet. The nest is a deep cup 

 of moss and fibre, suspended from one or two twigs of a 

 branch. Length of bird about 5 inches. 



I only got home three, all that I started with from 

 Bakloh; of these one has gone to our member Mr. Towns- 

 end and two to Mr. Weslev Page. Of the latter one had a 

 curious and unfoi-tunat^ a^-ciden^^, hanging itself in a fork of 

 a myrtle bush growiuLT in o'le of our Editor's exceflent green- 

 house flights. T remember losing a Plumbeous Redstart in a 

 somewhat similar way some yea'^s ago, and can sympathise 

 with him in his loss. 



;>. Thr Plapk-throatrd Babblrr (Starlnirisi niari- 

 ar-p-^) is named a Wren-Pabb'er bv Jerdon. probably because 

 of its small size, but it has little of the Wren about it. Cer- 

 tainly it skulks up low underg>^owth but quite in a different 

 way, more like a Siva o^ Liothrix in tliis respect. It is a 

 smnrt, viviicious littb^ bird, well nble to look after itself, 

 with much larger birds in a mixed aviary. Tt was evidently 



