Notes on a Collection of Eggs made at Murree. 34'9 



j)revious record, such as Pteruthius efyth'opterus, Pericrocotiis 

 roseus, Cejjlialopyns flammiceps. We liave noted the total result 

 of our researches, not omitting' the commoner species, thinking" 

 the record might be interesting on account of locality, as the list 

 shews several birds which breed in the hills and the plains. We 

 have in most instances followed Jerdon's numbers and nomen- 

 clature, any deviation has been duly noted. The measurements 

 of the eggs are noted in inches and decimals of inches. In addi- 

 tion to the egg's named below, we were fortunate enough to get 

 those oiFerdix Hodgsonioe, from Captain Barnes of the lOth Bengal 

 Lancers. He obtained them at an elevation of 18,000 feet in 

 Thibet. He got nine eggs but eat seven and only preserved the 

 shells of two, which are now in our collection. They were found 

 on the 13th of July, and were fresh. They are paler than the eggs 

 of Perdix cinerea, and a more regular oval in shape. 



No. 6 —Neophron Ginginianus. 



Found a nest in a cliff in May, with two fresh eggs, at an ele- 

 vation of about 4,000 feet. 



No. 17.— Tinnuncnlus alaiidarius. 



The kestrel usually builds in rocks, but we found a nest about 

 sixty feet up a pine tree, with five hard set eggs in it, of a much 

 duller dirtier brown than usual. This was on the 14th of June. The 

 nest was apparently one originally belonging to Corvus cuhninatus. 



No. 23.— Micronisns badius. 



On May 18th, took a nest belonging to this species, containing 

 two bluish-white eggs, from the top of a high pine tree. 



No. 75.— EpMaltes gymnopodus. 



We found a nest containing" two eggs, in a dead tree, about 

 fifteen feet from the ground, on the 1st of June, low down the 

 hill side. The bird"^ shot off the nest answers exactly to Hume^s 

 description of gymnopodus ; the elevation at which the nest was 

 found was about 6,000 feet. The eggs are white and 1*3 in length 

 by I'l breadth. We also shot an undoiihted U. plumiijes, but 

 could not find a nest of this species. 



No. 80 — Glaucidium brodei. 



We were unable to find the eggs of this species, but on the 

 SSnd of June, we secured three full fledged young ones in a hole 

 in a dead tree. We managed to rear these until about the mid- 



* I have examined this specimen, it is clearly spilocephalus, Blyth, which ppo- 

 bably eciw^ih gymnopodus. Gray. Ed., S. F. 



