438 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
the middle ranges, up to about 5000 to 6000 feet, arriving early 
in May to breed. It lays its pale bluish green eggs, speckled 
darker, in holes of trees, also in banks, on a pad of leaves and 
fine roots or twigs. The only Mynah I saw was A. tristis; but 
there were examples of A. ‘fuscus in Mr. P.’s collection, obtained 
on the spot. 
This evening I saw a considerable flock of large Swifts, most 
likely C. melba, flying about and screaming, as if they meditated 
migration. They were quite out of shot. C. affinis is common 
here, but I observed it nowhere else during our trip, and no 
other true Swift. I had rather a good day of it, and may record 
the more noteworthy acquisitions. Hemichelidon fuliginosa, the 
Dusky Flycatcher, a pair; not a common species. Muscicapula 
superciliaris, a pretty little Flycatcher, figured by Jerdon in his 
‘Illustrations’; common all over the West Himalayas, and I 
believe in the Nilgherries; and I once got it in the cold weather 
in the neighbourhood of Allahabad! Stoporala melanops, the 
Verditer Flycatcher, a common species, which I think attains a 
higher elevation than other Flycatchers. I have noted it at over 
10,000 feet. I saw a dozen of these birds to-day, and several of 
the pretty Myiagra cerulea. Both species breed on the hills. I 
got a single specimen of another rare Flycatcher, Hrythrosterna 
acornaus, for the identification of which I am indebted to 
Major Hutton. 
The Paradise Flycatcher, Mr. P. informs me, is occasionally 
found at Koteghur, and he showed me its nest, which he had 
found in his orchard,—a beautiful deep cup, worked up with fine 
grass-stems, and thickly coated with cobwebs; the eggs are 
cream-coloured, freckled and blotched with claret.* Cryptolopha 
cinereocapilla, seen all along our route ; common at Kussowlie, &c., 
visiting the Dhoon in winter. I think it is to this little bird that 
the beautiful nest belongs, described somewhere by Hutton as 
being like a watch-pocket built of moss, and fixed against the 
trunk of a tree. 
I saw three kinds of Laughing Thrush to-day, and mention 
them in the order I found them most prevalent:—(1) G. 
albigularis, (2) G. leucolophus, (3) G. variegatus, which last is 
somewhat rare, and I think affects the higher mountains, and 
* I possess nests of this bird shaped like an inverted cone or prolonged into 
a stalk like a sherry-glass. 
