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bands, about an incli apart ; below the ground colour is an 

 albescent brownish grey, the bars showing- throug'h, but only 

 the broad sub terminal one conspicuously. 



Is this j';/u7y;7J<?;/6v'.i' .^ is it new? I must leave jNTr. Gurney 

 to pronounce judg-aient_, as for me, JJavus sum ii,ou (Edlpus. 



Me. H. R. p. Cae-ter, C. E., very kindly sends me from 

 Coimbatore three specimens of the European House Martin, 

 Chelldon urbica, L. All are young birds, but whether bred in 

 India or not, I cannot g-uess. In England, if I remenber rightly, 

 the young do not moult before leaviug us. Hitherto I have 

 only received this species from Thundiani in Huzara, a little 

 Sanatarium, nearly 9,000 feet above the level of the sea, where 

 they are plentiful during' the summer. These Coimbatore speci- 

 mens were shot during this present year. 



Me. C. W. Mathews, I. C. S., sends me the most lovely 

 lutino of Palaornis rosa, that I ever saw. He shot it early in 

 January, in the salt range, near the Maj^o mines. It is a very 

 fine male; the general colour of the plumage, the brightest and 

 purest canary yellow, only a few of the quills, and a few of the 

 feathers of the back, rump, and flanks, a bright pare gi-een. The 

 forehead, cheeks, and chin, a lovely magenta pink ; the central 

 tail feathers pure white, except at the bases, (which, with the 

 Avhole of the rest of the reetrices, are yellow,) and a narrow bright 

 blue streak down the shaft of one of them. The bill appears to 

 have been orange yellow and the feet pinkish. It is impossible 

 to conceive, so bright and pure are all the tints, a more beautiful 

 creature. 



Mr. E. Lockwood, C. S., sends me a skin of the grey tit 

 [Farus cinereus) from Purneah, where he says it is common 

 in gardens, with the remark that since the roadside trees have 

 grown up, numbers of species now visit Purneah in the cold 

 weather that formerly never crossed the treeless belt of coun- 

 try intervening between that station and the Terai. This is 

 only another instance of the readiness with v4iich birds avail 

 themselves of any alterations in the condition of things ; there 

 are numbers now-a-days that seem absolutely to ignore the fiict 

 that they can sit any where except on the wii'es, and who would, 

 I have no doubt, consider the abolition of telegraphs a gross and 

 unwarrantable disregard of their vested rights ! 



A. O. H. 



