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"on a nest ol this bird in the middle of a low thiik bush. Thr 

 " nest was four hvX frmn the ground, rompi^sed of dead leaves and a 

 " I'ew sticks with .1 sligln depression in the centre. The bird was sitting 

 "on the ncsl. < 'n my advancing my hand into the direction of the nest, 

 " the bird, instead of making oft, stO(.)d u]) on the nest puffed out her 

 "feathers and \i(iousl\ pecked at my liand. Having done this, site vit 

 " <lown again on the eggs. I again |)ut out my hand, with the same 

 " result, and this was repeated several times, tiic bird refusing to lease 

 " her eggs 1 then ])iL-,hed my hand under her, while she stood up and 

 " delivered) a i^icries i>f good hard pecks which were not altogether pleas^ 

 "ant. 1 took four eggs from under her and haviijg examinc'd them, 

 " returned two, leaving her sitting on the remaining five eggs. When I 

 " got home finding that the nidilication of the bird was not-recorded 

 " in th(.- f-iiinia 01 Brit. India, I decided to take the remaining eggs/ 

 " which I did <jii the following day, though I \\a, very loth to do so, 

 " after the extraordinary bravery dispUiycd by the parent bird. On my 

 " second visit on the following day the bird did not wait for me to 

 " put out my hand but left the nest, walking along a branch in my 

 " direction, and opened the attack by pecking me on the hand. .She then 

 " returned to the nest and settled down on her eggi again. I have 

 " ^een very many incubating birds, but never one which exhiltited such 

 " extraordinary pluck and pugnacity. Ail the time she was delivciing 

 " tier attacks she gave vent to a low peculiar noise, somewhati resemb- 

 " ling the swearing of a cat. '1 he eggs, seven in number, were slightly 

 " incubated, pale creamy white, close in texture, with a f.iir imount of 

 " Igloss, and measure about 1.4 x 1.05." 



SoMK OF THE C]LkD.\SPUR Dlstrrt, J'UNjAH: From 

 an article by A. J. Curri- in the Jtninuil of B.X.H..S., we extract 

 notes of the following species : 



" 'Ihe C'(.)mmuii lora .Aegiiitha tiphui). I met wi.h this sjjecies 

 "at Hoshipur in March and Gurdaspur in August, while at Malikpur P 

 " found a ne>i with tlirte young in a small thorny tree oa the bank 

 " jof the canal on i.,t .August 1914. V peculiari:y in tlie Punjab birds 

 "of this species tliiit I liave sf> far seen is that the cock birds do nor 

 " fippear to ;i^sume the black upper plumige in the hot weather, which 

 " led I regret to say, to my shooting the cock bird in the case of 

 thj above-mentioned wired nest, as I Iiatl no idea that he was breed- 

 ing. However, when I visited the nest a week la'.er all the young 

 " birds were doing well 



Other notes from this interestmg article will be given 

 in our next issue. 



