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the brow of the bill. After a lot of trouble I only succeeded 

 in shooting a pretty little Hawk (Accipiter virgatus), but a 

 climb down the least precipitous part of the hill brought us 

 to some gullies, where I got one of the Doves, which was, 

 after all, only Turtur rupicola. A visit to one or two of the 

 adjacent wooded hillocks only produced a Myiagra azurea 

 and a Zosterops simplex. There were also a few other birds 

 about, among them Alcippe morrisonia, busily hunting for 

 insects along the boughs of the trees overhead, which I did 

 not care to shoot. I went home very early, as we had to be 

 off that afternoon. It was again very hot, just as on the 

 previous day. 



Several shooting-men turned up in the forenoon with birds, 

 some of them very interesting to a new comer ; a fine female 

 Sparrow-Hawk [Accipiter virgatus), Spizixus cinereicapillus 

 (in full moult), Hypsipetes nigerrimus, Potnatorhinus musicus, 

 Sibia auricularis, Stacliyridopsisriificeps, lyngipicus scintil- 

 liceps, and a specimen of the small Formosan hare. I was 

 thus kept busy all the forenoon, working hard with my 

 servant at the captures brought in by the natives, who evi- 

 dently knew where to look for birds. These men, delighted 

 at the price paid for the birds, eagerly inquired every time 

 they came in how much longer we were going to stay, and 

 would set off immediately on a new search, to return with 

 perhaps one or two interesting birds. Had I had any time 

 to spend here it would have been easy to obtain specimens 

 of many species. 



We left Baksa towards 2 p.m., bound for the inn on the 

 Black Mountain, where we were to sleep that night, and 

 reached the place after a hot walk. We met on the way one 

 of the shooting-men, who was waiting for us with a couple 

 more birds, an Alcedo bengalensis and a Hypsipetes nigerrimus, 

 a young bird just beginning to put on the adult plumage. 

 We also purchased a Partridge from a small boy. I now 

 saw, when too late, that I had made a great mistake in look- 

 ing for birds on the Baksa side of the valley, where only the 

 lower hills were wooded. The ''O Soa"," being nearly all 

 wooded, would have proved a much better locality. 



