observed in Dras and Suru. 369 



other thickly wooded valleys of Kashmir, and ranges up to 

 10,000 feet, where it frequents the ancient birch-forests. 

 It is by no means a shy bird. 



7. CORACIAS GARRULUS. 



This is the commonest Roller in the valley. Compared 

 with C. indicus it is not nearly so bright in appearance. 

 Great numbers breed in holes in the high clay banks of the 

 Jhelum towards Islamabad. 



8. Ceryle rudis. 



Common up to 6000 feet. I did not observe the large 

 Pied Kingfisher, C. guttata. This bird hovers like a Kestrel 

 over the water, and. when it stoops on a fish it goes straight 

 with closed wings and tremendous velocity, disappearing 

 right under water for several seconds. The plunge is exactly 

 like that of a Gannet. 



9. IyNX TORQUILLA. 



I observed two kinds of Wryneck — one in the valley near 

 Srinagar, very distinctly marked with white and yellow, 

 corresponding to one shot in 1888, and now at Cambridge; 

 the other observed in the Wurdwan at about 9000 feet, a 

 darker reddish-coloured bird, and usually occurring among 

 the thick balsam -jungles, up the stems of which I have seen 

 them creeping. This may have been lynx indica. 



10. CUCULUS CANORUS. 



Common in Suru and Wurdwan. I heard one at Mini- 

 marg, about the centre o£ the Zogi-la. 



11. Upupa epops. 

 Common in the Wurdwan. 



12. CiNCLUS ASIATICUS (?) . 



Of this species I got an example, an immature female, 

 at Bosman, in the Wurdwan. Colour a dusky brown, with 

 bluish-grey spots. I sent the skin to Professor Newton at 

 Cambridge"^. 



* [From an examination of the skins of Dippers in the British Museum, 

 I came to the conclusion that this was C asiaticus. My son now writes 



