MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 239 



The head and neck feathers are blackish-brown, finely margined rufous, 

 creating a fine mottling of these two colours. The lores present some chestnut 

 mottling. Hind neck, back, and upper tail coverts blackish-brown finely barred 

 and margined white. Many feathers have two or three distinct bars, but a few 

 on the sides are fine and densely vermiculated as in the adult male. Lower neck, 

 sides of neck, abdomen, and under tail coverts are white, mottled rufous yellow, 

 and some feathers at the side are finely vermiculated blackish-brown as in adult 

 males. Upper wing coverts uniform darkish grey, the greater secondary coverts 

 tipped cinnamon. Primary quills with outer webs blackish, inner drab with 

 blackish tip; shafts white; secondary quills, except innermost two, with outer webs 

 washed bronze-green, and broadly tipped white. The three outermost with a 

 cinnamon bar above the white, and fulvous white fine mottling on outer webs. 

 Inner webs blackish grey, mottled white towards tips. The two innermost 

 quills are much longer than the rest. The outer web of the outer is black on 

 the outer side, and silvery grey on the inner side. The outer web of the inner 

 silvery grey. The inner webs of both blackish brown. Underwings coverts 

 greyish with very fine white profuse mottling. Axillaries white moderately 

 mottled blackish-brown. JSTo long tail feathers. The rectrices, which are just 

 appearing, are black edged white. 



Bill bluish-grey at sides of base, otherwise blackish- brown. Legs ar.d feet 

 plumbeous-grey with blackish webs and nails. Hind toe narrowly lobed. 



Length 21" ; wing 10J" ; tail 1£" : Stuart Baker (Bom. Nat. Hist. Jourl. Vol. 

 XII, p. 439) says the young male " has the wing like that of the adult," but is 

 otherwise coloured like the female, which observation appears to be snhstan- 

 tially correct. 



F. WALL, Captain, i.m.s., c.m.z.s. 

 Fyzabad, l"th November 1905. 



No. XVII.— ALBINISM IN THE KAKAR OK MUNTJAC 



(CERVULUS MUNTJAC). 

 The Prime Minister of Nepal has sent me a pure white fawn of the Barking 

 Deer said to have been caught on the 5th instant on the Sheogouri, a hill in the 

 Nepal Valley, where the other white deer about which I wrote in April or 

 May last (vide page 742, No. 4, Vol. XVI of the Journal) was found. This 

 latter deer — still in the Nepal State menagerie — is now turning colour and 

 becoming pie-bald. 

 The new fawn is being brought up by hand and is doing well. 



J. MANNERS SMITH, Major. 

 The Residency, Nepal, 

 Uth November 1905. 



No. XVIII.— FOOD OF PREDACEOUS FLIES. 

 With regard to Captain K. E. Nangle's note about the food of predaceous 

 flies on page 747 of the last Journal "(No. 4, Vol. XVI), I have twice seen this 



