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years I got several examples at Landour, and kept one alive for 
many months, feeding him, when I had the chance, on Mus 
niviventer, the common house Rat of the hills. In an adjoining 
cage I had a specimen of the beautiful S. newarense, which had 
been sent to me from the interior by my friend Mr. Frederick 
Wilson (“ Mountaineer”), and I had many a visitor to see these 
pets. I got two kinds of Horned Owl in these mountains, viz., Bubo 
Bengalensis, which is rare off the plains, and Ketupa flavipes, the 
Yellow-legged Fish-Owl, also a rare species; its congener, K. 
Ceylonensis, pervades India, Ceylon, and Burmah, but I have not 
met with it on the hills. 
Fagoo, Oct. 4th.—I had a very successful day, and might have 
obtained many more specimens, but, as it was, got more than 
enough for the stuffer to prepare properly. Starting at daylight, 
I strolled about for three hours in the beautiful “hanging” 
woods; many of the shrubs and trees were assuming their 
autumnal tints. Wild fruits and berries were in abundance; 
raspberry, barberry, and others affording ample food to hosts of 
birds of many kinds. I first secured a pair of Bullfinches, 
Pyrrhula erythrocephala, a pretty species which I had found at 
Kussowlie the previous spring, and I got three or four more 
before leaving Fagoo. 
A second species, P. aurantiaca, has been described from 
Cashmere, and two or three others from Nipal and Sikim, at 
great elevations. In dense brushwood I noticed a pair of small 
brown birds hopping about, turning up the dry leaves and keeping 
up a faint whistling conversation. I did not at first recognise 
them, but on securing a specimen found it was the Red-eyed 
Wren Warbler, Stachyris pyrrhops. It is not a very common bird, 
but pervades the whole of the N.W. Himalayas. I afterwards 
found it to be very common at Koteghur, and I there observed 
it to be more arboreal in its habits than on this occasion, 
frequenting the mulberry-groves, &c. - I once got its nest in 
the soldiers’ garden at Kussowlie, in the end of May, in a thicket 
of dwarf bamboo; a shallow cup made up chiefly of fine grass- 
Stalks, with a few leaves, on which lay the four eggs of a light 
Sreenish grey, with faint dark spots and speckles. 
The Kalij Pheasant, P. albocristatus, is by far the most 
common kind in this part of the hills, and is found in winter 
at the foot of the first range. I shot a brace to-day; and they 
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