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implies, it is a dwarf Woodpecker, but much less arboreal in its 
habits than that family generally is, affecting brushwood and 
coppice, creeping about the low branches, and seeking its insect- 
food among the fallen twigs and leaves. It is not usually found 
at so high an elevation, but its small size and unobtrusive habits 
may lead to its being overlooked. One of the best birds I pro- 
cured during the whole trip was, to-day, a single specimen of a 
minute Tit-like bird, A/githalus flammiceps, which I had only 
seen once before, below Simla. There were several of them 
mixed up with a large family party of other small insectivores in 
a rhododendron, but they all dispersed before I could load again. 
They are in general not so easily put to flight. I met with it a 
few marches on, at the margin of the pine-forest, several times. 
As I had had enough of fagging for the day, and there were a 
good many specimens to prepare, I sent Oosrao out in the after- 
noon with my gun to explore the woods. He brought in after 
dusk a beautiful Wood Owl, Syrnium Newarense, obtained in a 
deep ravine close to the bungalow, and had seen another. This 
specimen measured 20% in., and its alar expanse 52 in., and was 
in perfect plumage; irides dark brown; and the stomach con- 
tained a large bolus of feathers and finely-comminuted bones of 
a Ffypsipetes, as far as I could make out. Oosrao also produced 
a Flying Squirrel, P. inornatus, and said he had killed its 
companion; but could not find it, owing to the density of the 
underwood. The only other trophy he brought in was a specimen 
of Zoothera monticola. 
Fagoo, Oct. 6th.—Spent the whole of this day in the woods, 
and did not deem it necessary to go a mile beyond the bungalow. 
I got nothing new to my collection, but added some rather good 
things to it. Among these sundries were three fine Grosbeaks, 
Coccothraustes icterioides, and I noticed a dozen of them; Mega- 
laima virens; Pomatorhinus leucogaster, the first seen of this 
species, and it was solitary; Sibia capistrata, common in the 
woods; Siphia strophiata; Myiagra cerulea; Picus Macei; and 
Caprimulgus monticolus. I might have got scores of specimens 
of sorts, but refrained from firing at anything I did not really 
particularly want. Capt. 'T’. went off by himself in quest of game, 
and bagged a Cheere Pheasant and a Kalij, and a couple of Wood 
Pigeons, C. Hodgsonui. As he seemed rather anxious to push on, 
we resolved to make for the next bungalow in the morning. — 
