190 PET BIRDS OF BENGAL 



the habits of thrushes. Modern ornitho- 

 logists have assigned to the Kastura its 

 rightful place and in the next edition of 

 Avifauna we will find the Myiophoneus 

 shifted to its proper classification. 



As its name implies, the Kastura lives 

 in the Abode of the Gods — the Himalayas. 



It is to be found from Gilgit to 

 Distn- Assam and is common, except 



in the breeding season, at all 

 heights up to the Snow-line. During the cold 

 weather it moves down to the plains and may 

 be met with here and there as a strao-orler 

 throughout northern Behar, northern Oudh 

 and northern Rohilkhund. But it never 

 comes down to the plains of Bengal. It 

 is also not very rare in Saharanpur and 

 in the plains districts westwards of the 

 Jumna. It has been noticed in Attock 

 and the Salt Rano-es. In the breedings 

 season it confines itself to the deep glens 

 and valleys wherever there is running water 

 below 6000 ft. and above 2000 ft. It is 

 also to be found in the WW rans:es of South 



