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dog, both names portray striking characteristic of guttata. This 
large black and white streaked kingfisher is frequently met with 
on the banks of Runjeet and Teesta, unlike lengalensis, it ascends 
over mountain streams, and is often found quite up to 5,000 feet 
elevation in its hunt for fish in big jhoras. One might have rea- 
sons to doubt the presence of fish at this ascent of the mountains ; 
but Guttata evidently has not the slightest misgivings in the matter, 
as it has been successful, on several occasions, in some of the dark 
pools in fishing out a fair sized fish or aquatic insect or two. How 
fish are found at this elevation, is difficult to suggest a feasible 
solution to the occurrence. It is usually in the rains that (uttata 
finds its way up these hill streams, when rivers in the valleys, are 
rushing torrents and perilous even for large kingfishers to dive 
into. The specimen of (Guftuta before me, is from about 5,000 feet 
elevation. In length it is 14 inches; billisshort for a kingfisher; it 
has a fine crest of long narrow feathers, which droop down, back of the 
neck; colour of the plumage is black and white, fairly equally dis- 
tributed, over various parts of the bird, in form of bars and spots 
chiefly ; lower parts are white; flank and under tail coverts branded 
with black. This big kingfisher is not a little local in habits, it 
seldom leaves the Himalayas. Its place, in the plains, seems gene- 
rally taken, by Ceryle rudis, Pied Indian Kingfisher (136), a smaller 
bird, about 11 inchesin length, black and white in colour, white patches 
and streaks are better defined and more prominent than in Guttate. 
Whilst hunting it flies over the surface, when of a sudden it halts, 
and hovers over the water as though it had spotted something, then 
dives perpendicularly after the fish, which is at times, brought up 
from a good depth below, as occasionally, the splash it has made, 
has moved down stream before the kingfisher emerges again. 
(futtata, like not a few of the race, as often as not, being partial to 
well wooded, rocky and hilly precipitous country, is seen sitting 
solitary on rocks or water worn-roots of trees near by hill torrents 
and plunges hawk-like in an oblique line, hence the name “ Water- 
Tiger.” It is not so successful as Pied Kingfisher in its dive after 
fish, may be, partly because it ignores small fry and goes for bigger 
mouth-fulls, as it has been seen to land a fair sized fish; or perhaps 
these aquatic dwellers in our hill streams are more lively, and on the 
alert than their brethren in the plains. May be the enervating 
climate tells on their constitutions. 
Famity EURYLAIMIDAE ( Broadhills) 
These beautiful birds, look like parrakeets in the distance, when 
among woods and green foliage ; but closer observations soon dispel 
