440 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
orchard close to the Mission House. The only other Sunbird 
noted was the purple one, N. Asiatica, which would seem to be 
common at Koteghur and in the warm valleys. Passer cinna- 
momeus, the Cinnamon Sparrow, is, I find, particularly abundant 
hereabouts, quite taking the place of the domestic one, and 
freely entering the verandahs. Elsewhere I have only noticed it 
in trees. It is a pretty bird, at least the male is; the female 
being paler brown, without a trace of the bright rufous of her 
mate. I have found this Sparrow’s nest at Kussowlie the end of 
April,—an untidy structure of grass and feathers, mixed up with 
scraps of paper, wedged into the fork of a decayed andromeda 
tree. The eggs, five in number, seemed precisely like the 
Common Sparrow’s. The only other representative of the 
family I have myself obtained in India is the yellow-necked 
P. flavicollis, common in the sub-Himalayas; and I have also 
shot it in the Rajmahl Hills. 
This evening, as I was coming in from a fruitless search for 
Chicore, I almost stumbled on a Fox at a turn of the path, 
close to the Mission House, and by a lucky snap-shot bowled 
him over. Mr. P. was glad to see this marauder hanging by the 
heels in the verandah next morning, as his poultry yard had 
of late been somewhat thinned by some nocturnal visitor. ‘There 
is a caged specimen here, belonging to one of the servants, of a 
Thrush, Geocichla unicolor, a fine songster, and not very rare up 
to 5000 feet. G. citrina, a handsome species, is abundant at the 
foot of the hills in winter, visiting the middle ranges, where I 
infer it breeds about April. 
Koteghur, Oct. 19th.—Having sent on breakfast materials 
and our ponies to Komarsen, a hill village four miles off, we left 
Koteghur at daylight. A descent of two miles brought us to a 
beautiful stream, which we had to ford, as the little bridge was 
under repair. Luckily our coolies had not got farther on the 
road; so after devoting an hour to exploring the thick underwood, 
I had a bathe in the stream, and then to breakfast. I shot a small 
Otter, and we sighted a big one in the afternoon. We got nothing 
new, and nothing of particular interest. The best birds secured 
were Zoothera monticola, Cinclus Pallasii, Henicurus maculatus, 
Ruticilla leucocephala, R. fuliginosa, Myiophonus Temmincki, 
and Turdus viscivorus. Siva strigula was common in the more 
open part of the coppices; and there were the usual species of 
