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at a touch from tlie leaves and twigs of this tree was a 

 mystery, but they brought off their brood. 



To the nest-making materials already given, cotton-wool 

 {Gossypiuni) may be added. Ou the 11th of February, 1914, 

 a nest was found partly made of this. 



To Mr. P. R. Lowe thanks are due for the identification 

 of most of the foregoing birds. If his knowledge of the 

 birds of the West Indies could have been combined with 

 the writer's opportunities, the Grand Cayman list would, 

 in all probability, be considerably longer than it is. 



III. — Notes on the Birds of the Jhelum District of the 

 Punjab. By Hugh Whistler, ]Nr.B,O.U. With Notes on 

 the Collection by Claud B. Ticehurst, M.A.., M.B.O.U. 



(Plate II.) 



It was with considerable pleasure that, on arrival from leave 

 in England in April 1913, 1 learnt that I had been posted to 

 the district of Jhelum in the Rawal Piudi division of the 

 Punjab. Before my departure I had already spent a year in 

 the adjoining district of Rawal Pindi, and had, therefore, a 

 general knowledge of the avifauna which I would come across 

 and the points on which to concentrate special attention. 

 Besides this, there was the additional attraction that, while 

 the whole northern and central Punjab (which was added 

 to British territory at a comparatively late date) is but little 

 dealt with in Indian ornithological works, the district of 

 Jhelum had practically been left untouched, yet it is these 

 north-western districts bordering upon the Himalayas which 

 most repay study. 



The district is thus described in the ' Gazetteer ' : — 

 " Jhelum District. — A district in the Rawal Pindi division 

 of the Punjab, lying between 32° 27" and 33° 15" N. and 

 72° 32" and 73° 48" E., with an area of 2813 square miles. 



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