444 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
I kept a pair for myself, and meant to have sent them to 
Calcutta, believing them to be new; but they unaccountably 
disappeared with some of my rarest skins, and I have no doubt 
they were purloined by an ungrateful scoundrel of a soldier, 
whom I employed as half-servant, half-orderly. This man had a 
good knowledge of Himalayan birds, at least as regards their 
rarity and value; and having been at the Sanitarium for a couple 
of seasons he had a fair collection of his own, which he purposed 
taking to England for sale, as he was about to be invalided. After 
he left Landour, I misséd some of my best birds, to which he 
used to have free access. Among these were the only example I 
then possessed of the Black-backed Woodpecker, Chrysocolaptes 
Goensis ; the Himalayan Crossbill, the only one I ever obtained ; 
Eurylaimus Dalhousie, Nectarinia Gouldiea, and N. Horsfieldu. 
I made a lucky shot this afternoon, and knocked over a fine 
black Eagle as it swept past me. This proved to be Neopus 
Malaiensis, a female. It is described and figured by Hodgson, in 
‘Journal Asiatic Society,’ No. 134, 1843, under another name, 
which I forget. It is remarkable for the conformation of the 
foot, whereof the inner toe is remarkably large and stout, and 
the outer small and weak. I saw several of these Eagles during 
our trip, but only got this one. It is readily recognised in flight 
by its very dusky, almost black, colour, and its immense alar 
expanse. Hodgson says it subsists mainly on birds’ eggs. The 
stomach of my bird to-day contained only the remains of a small 
Monitor Lizard, Varanus, but no vestige of an egg. I was 
surprised to get to-day an example of the Cuckoo Shrike, 
Campephaga fimbriata, rather a scarce bird, but of wide distri- 
bution, for I have shot it in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, at 
Secundrabad, and at Mahableswur; and here it turns up in the 
far Himalayas. An allied species, C. Sykesii, is distinguished 
by its smaller size and black head; and it is also of wide 
distribution. 
I had a ramble in the forest in the afternoon, avoiding the 
denser portions, which few birds seem to resort to. Among 
other species obtained and noted were Oreocincla mollissima, 
Merula Wardii, Geocichla citrina, Petrocincla erythrogastra, 
P. cinclorhyncha, and Turdus atrigularis being all Thrushes. 
Of Woodpeckers Gecinus occipitalis, G. syuamatus, Picus Hima- 
layanus, P. brunnifrons, P. pygmeus, and I thought I saw 
