Trip to Kashmir. 7 



all of which we found in Kashmir territory, this list not 

 including species seen at Murree before we crossed the 

 frontier. The names used in this list are mostly those of 

 * The Fauna of British India/ by Oates and Blanford. 



L CORVUS MACRORHYNCHUS Wagl. 



This Crow was common all along the Sind Valley as far 

 as Sonamurg, and also in the Jhelum Valley between Kohala 

 and Baramula. In the Valley of Kashmir proper, with the 

 exception of a pair on the Tukht-i-Suliman in Srinugger, we 

 did not meet with it. We took fresh eggs from the beginning 

 of May in various places in the Sind Valley. 



2. CoRVUS SPLENDENS Vicill. 



This species we noticed abundantly about Srinugger and 

 along the Jhelum between that place and Baramula, but we 

 never saw the bird anywhere in the Sind Valley. The 

 Kashmir birds are almost white, so much so that we did not 

 recognize the species on first meeting with it. Their young 

 were flying in the neighbourhood of Srinugger in the end of 

 June. 



3. CoRVUs MONEDULA Linn. 



Noticed first at Uri in the Jhelum Valley on April 23rd, 

 where Jackdaws were building in the fort, and from there in 

 numbers in every village between Baramula and Srinugger. 

 We found them in abundance in the Sind Valley as far as 

 Gund in the beginning of May, and later on they appeared 

 in considerable numbers at Gangadgir (7000 feet), at the 

 foot of the gorge leading up to Sonamurg. We, however, 

 never met with any at Sonamurg, and they do not seem to 

 enter the gorge at all. We saw some nests in holes in 

 buildings in Srinugger, and in holes in banks along the 

 Jhelum, but the vast majority were in holes in trees, espe- 

 cially of chunar-trees ; many being several feet from the 

 mouth of the holes. The eggs were laid in the first three 

 weeks of May, and varied much, as they do in Europe. 

 We saw a single pair of birds building on the 2Ist June at 

 Gandarbal, where there were many young flying, so it is 

 likely that some at least breed twice in the year. 



