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creeper, JT. muraria. He had been lucky enough also to bag a 
splendid Eagle, Spizaetus Nipalensis, a female, with crest three 
inches long. She was on the look-out for spoil when he was 
after the Chicore, and kept for a long time just out of range. He 
brought also a Pine Marten, M. flavigula; and one of his coolies 
killed a beautiful green Viper, T'rigonocephalus, which Mr. P. 
told me was common on grassy hill-sides, and dreaded by the 
natives. He never knew of its bite being fatal to man; but 
Goats and Calves are often victims. 
All the afternoon the fine, albeit somewhat monotonous, 
flageolet-like note of the Kokla, Teron sphenurus, was heard in 
the woods, but we did not disturb them. It is rather late in the 
season to find them in the hills, as they are only summer 
visitants, resorting to the plains in autumn. I may add that 
next day I shot five pairs of them; preserved some, and kept the 
others for dinner. This species of Green Pigeon is a great 
favourite with the natives, on account of its mellow voice, and is 
constantly to be seen caged. T'reron phenicopterus has a more 
extensive range, being found all over Bengal; an allied form, 
T. chlorigaster, representing it in Southern India. The beautiful 
T. bicincta I have never myself found. Several other kinds 
of Green Pigeon are to be had in different parts of the country, 
but I only know them from books. 
Koteghur, Oct. 18th.—This morning I saw for the first time 
what appeared to be a new Bunting, feeding in small parties on 
the hill-slope, mixed up with other little seed-eaters, H. cia and 
EL. fucata, &c. I fired two barrels of No. 10 into them, and 
knocked over nine out of the lot, including three of the 
presumably new Bunting; and I got many more afterwards 
in this locality. Neither my companion, who had long collected 
in the hills, nor Mr. P. knew it; so I sent a series for identifi- 
cation to Blyth in Calcutta, suggesting the name LH. leucocephala 
if it was new. It was so; and he gave it the name it now bears, 
Eimberiza Stewarti. Subsequently I found it at Landour and in 
the alpine Punjab; and I think I saw it in Scinde in the cold 
weather. Gould has figured it, in ‘Birds of Asia,’ as E. caniceps ; 
but Blyth’s name has the precedence. I saw nothing peculiar in 
its habits. I have found it in low jungle, as well as on bare hill- 
sides. The other two Buntings noticed are found all over the 
hills, and some others occur in the North-west Himalayas, which 
