MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 257 



Niliai-a sundara, Hoclgs., at Murree. 



In the Fauna, Vol. II, p. 41. The Himalayan distribution of this bird is 

 o-iven as ''from Simla to Assam," hence it may be of interest to note that 

 in May and June of this year I found this one of the common birds in the 

 iuno-les at Murree. It frequents bushes and the lower branches of trees, 

 and when one approaches near to its nest, it has the habit of sitting in 

 one spot and tittering at intervals a dull squeaking note, so that it is hard 

 to spot. It occasionally spreads or raises its tail. The nests are hard to 

 find, their sites being similar to those adopted by English Robins wh^n 

 building on or near the ground : they are of moss, lined with fine roots or 

 stems, and the eggs are similar to the lightly marked variety of Robin's 

 eg'gs. 



I also took on May 30th a fresh clutch of four eggs of PetropMla enjtliro- 

 fjastra (Vig.) the chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush whose western limit 

 is wiven in the "Fauna" as Chamba. The nest was composed entirely of 

 pine needles and was placed in a small tunnel in a bank. They were 

 pinkish buff in colour, closely speckled with a darker shade of the same. 



H. WHISTLER, " 



Indian Police. 

 Rawal Pindi, 30iA June 1911. 



[In Captain Whitehead's paper on the birds of Koliat, which was reprinted 

 from the Ibis in the Journal, Vol. XX, p. 182, there are some remarks on a 

 series of hybrid bulbuls, which are said to be crosses between M. interme- 

 dius and M. leucor/enys. Mr. Whistler's bird, which he has kindly forward- 

 ed for examination seems to agree fairly closely with No. 689 5 of Captain 

 Whitehead's series. 



From M. intennedius this hybrid differs in being rather lighter, the 

 abdomen dirty white and the flanks grey. The ear coverts are a j)ale 

 washed out brown and the under-tail coverts are yellowish orange shading 

 into washed crimson at the tips. 



N. B. KINNEAR.] 



No XIX— NOTES ON THE NIDIFICATION OF .¥7CiiOC/CiIZ.4 

 SCOULERI, (Vigors), THE LITTLE FORKTAIL. 



The eggs of the Little Forktail have, so far as I am aware, not hitherto 

 been taken, and the following particulars in regard to its nidincation will, 

 doubtless, be of considerable interest to naturalists. 



On the 13th May 1910, while out searching for nests by the side of a 



stream in the neighbourhood of Simla, at an elevation of about 6,500 feet, 



I came across a pair of these birds, which appeared to be courting, and 



while watching them, I saw them twice hi copula. Making sure that the 



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