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C. rupestris, is said to occur hereabouts, but hitherto I have not 
obtained it. The only other true Pigeon of these parts is the 
White-backed, C. leuconota, which I got a few days later, further 
within the hills. 
A curious little bird obtained to-day is Ixulus flavicollis. There 
was a small flock of them in a dwarf bamboo clump in Capt. H.’s 
garden, dodging about, and difficult to shoot, from their intense 
restlessness. It would seem to be more common farther to the 
east than with us. Its manners and customs are those of the 
Titmice. I kept a pair for more than a year in an aviary at 
Kussowlie, and they used to nibble at a bit of hard-boiled egg 
held up to them, and drive away Bulbuls and other birds of 
twice their size and fighting weight. 
A Titlark, which I made out Anthus arboreus, is common 
hereabouts. I saw no other species at this elevation, but found 
another which Capt. IT’. pronounced to be A. Richardt at 4000 ft. 
I got a large Wren Warbler, Suya criniger, in some thick hedging 
in the garden, and in the same situation a little Phylloscopus 
whose christian name I know not to this day, and it agrees with 
none of Blyth’s descriptions. But the best bird I got to-day was 
a solitary Himalayan Jenny Wren, T'roglodytes Nipalensis, which 
very closely resembles the British bird, if it be not indeed 
identical. It was dodging about a broken-down wall behind the 
house. I never got above three or four others during many 
years of collecting. 
Capt. H. advised me to be on the look-out for Flying 
Squirrels on the outskirts of the forest; but I came across none 
here, nor did the brave Gomez, although I believe he never went 
fifty paces from the house to look for them. However, I got 
several of them farther on during this excursion. This species, 
Pteromys inornatus, is at times, as I can testify, far from uncommon. 
A friend brought me, one winter night, six specimens of this 
beautiful creature, which he had shot one after another on some 
trees by the road-side at Landour. By his account there must 
have been quite a flight of them. His attention was attracted by 
the falling of acorn-cups and small twigs from the oaks overhead. 
On looking up he saw one, then another, and another among the 
branches. As his house was close by, he went for his gun, and 
the result was this unprecedented bag. It was in December, with 
a fine bit of noon. I have always myself found this species in 
