358 Notes on some of the Indian Pifits. 



No. 725.— Hesperiphona icteroides. 



We were unlucky with this bird^s nest. As the first one we 

 found was a new one and the climber stupidly destroyed it, the 

 next one had young- ones. They breed very hig-h up in the 

 Himalayan spruce fir. Captain Cock g-ot three eg-g-s last year in 

 Kashmir : they are white, beautifully marked with broad 

 long-itudinal dashes of lig'ht and deep rufous brown at the larger 

 end. They are 1'05 long- and '8 broad. These birds breed at high 

 elevations, never under 7,000 feet. 



No. 778.— Sphenocerctis sphenuriis. 



The kokla breeds in spruce firs about Murree. The nest is 

 usually about twenty feeit up built by the trunk of the tfee^ It 

 lays in June. 



No^ 784.— Palumbus casiotis. 



Two nests taken about the middle of June ; they breed in the 

 valley of the Jhelum at a low elevation in dense thorny jungles. 

 The egg resembles that of the English wood-pigeon size^ 1'65 by 

 1-15. 



No. 792 — Turtur rupicola^ 



This species breeds in June in the pine forests. 



No. 795 —Turtur suratensis. 



Breeds in the hills as well as in the plains. 



No. 820— Gaccabis chukor. 



Several nests. This bird is found in great numbers all round 

 Murree. 



'^nim mx $mt d \\t %\\lm limits. 



By W. E. Brooks, Esq., G, E. 



Last January, in walking over the barren treeless country 

 south of Assensole, which is undulating, having the slack places 

 terraced for paddy cultivation, I met in one of these small pad- 

 dy fields a single example of Corydalla Bichardi. I was struck 

 with the unusual note which it uttered as it rose, and I therefore 

 followed it and shot it. 



