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MHetters to the Editor. 
SIR, 
THE Peahen generally nests on the ground. Here 
the country is very flat and gets so flooded that trees are used. 
I found, on 30th September, 1884, a nest and five eggs, hard set, 
in a triple fork of mango tree 12 feet from ground ; in just such a 
position as is represented in Captain Marshall’s sketch of the 
nest (Birds Nesting in India) of the Brown Fish Owl. 
2. Nest of Jora zeylanica (which is very common here) and 
three eggs hard set, on October 4th, 1884—very late, was it not ? 
I shot the female as she flew off nest, We had to bully her off 
it, and I think the man might have taken her in his hand. 
3. Marshall, p. 173 (Birds Nesting) says of 826—/P?. cam- 
bayensis “ requires confirmation.” I caught the female by pop- 
ping my hat on her as she sat in a tuft of grass on six fresh eggs, 
24th September, 1884, about 50 yards behind my house. 
On 21st September, 1884, four hard-set eggs of same species 
were brought me. 
. H. LitTLeDALe. 
THE COLLEGE, BARODA, November 7th, 1884, 
SIR, 
YESTERDAY I saw in an open field a large flock, over 
three hundred, of what I think were Rooks (C. frugtlegus). I 
was unable to shoot one, and should be glad to know ifthe Rook 
is ever found as far south, as I have never seen it before. 
Neither Ravens, which are common here, nor Crows ( C. splendens) 
ever collect in flocks to feed in the fields as far as lam 
aware. 
FranK W. CHANTER. 
LupHIANA, November 1st, 1884. 
[Rooks, I think, are rarely seen as far east as Ludhiana. They are 
common some years during the winterin the submontane districts from 
Sealkote and Rawalpindi to Peshawar, and I have seen specimens from 
Hoshiarpore, but never, I think, from Ludhiana,—ED., 8. F.] 
SIR, 
Witu reference to page 174 of your Vol. III, “Game 
Birds of India,” I have the pleasure to inform you that this 
year, on the 16th May, I came across a very large number of 
the “Pink-headed Duck,” on the “ Koosumba Tal” at the 
édge of the Sakhoo forest about 25 miles north of Kheeri. 
Unfortunately I could not shoot one of them as we had a large 
tiger in a patch of reeds adjoining the Tal (we got him after 
rather a sharp tussle.) The birds, however, came so close to 
ns oy I had xo dificulty in identifying them as “ Pink-headed 
Juck.” 
