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figured on our table almost daily during this expedition. They 
are constantly brought in for sale by the native poachers, and 
may be bought for three or four annas each (fourpence to sixpence) ; 
and I have found them most plentiful in low jungle, but not in 
the depth of the forest. They are usually met with in pairs, but 
I once put up a covey of more than a dozen. I esteem them the 
best of the hill Pheasants for the table. Following the course of 
a mountain-stream, I obtained fine specimens of several species 
restricted to such localities, the most conspicuous of these being 
of course the Henicurus, and the two Water Redstarts already 
noticed. Another irrepressible bird always to be met with about 
the mountain-torrents is Myiophonus Temminckit, the Himalayan 
Blue Whistling Thrush; in this species the bill is yellow, thus 
distinguishing it inter alia from its representative of Southern 
and Western India, whose bill is black. Of other Thrushes 
observed to-day I may mention Oreocincla mollissima, Merula 
Wardii, aud M. bulbul, of which I got good examples; all 
of these were observed solitary. Of M. castanea I saw a 
party of eight or ten, and bagged a pair at a shot. I believe it 
is not decided among ornithologists if this bird be a distinct 
species from M. albocincta. The only Bulbul I noticed in this 
part of the country is Pycnonotus leucogenys, the white-cheeked, 
crested one, and it is very common; it leaves for the plains about 
this season, revisiting the hills to breed about April. A species 
of black Bulbul with red vent, P. pygmeus, visits the hills also 
in summer, and occurs at Kussowlie and Simla; but I have not 
seen it farther within the mountains, nor did I see the red- 
whiskered species, P. jocosus, at all. 
I noticed a pair of dusky Mynahs, Acridotheres fuscus, this 
morning, and subsequently a few at Koteghur; but they are not 
nearly so common in these parts as about Mussoorie and Almorah, 
where they supplant the almost ubiquitous A. tristis. I saw no 
other kind of Mynah during the trip. Of Laughing Thrushes I 
this day noticed four species: G. albigularis, very common and 
self-asserting, in large families; G. variegatus; G. erythro- 
cephalus, less so, and in smaller assemblages; and G. lineatus, 
always in pairs. Found a beautiful pendent nest, undoubtedly 
that of some species of Nectarinia, possibly N. Gouldit, or it may 
be N. miles, if that lovely species occurs so high. It was of the 
usual pyriform shape, constructed of thickly-felted materials, 
