MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 261 



eggs have been taken by Col, Ward in Kashmir ; I think by S. L. Whymper 

 in Garwhal ; and possibly by Davidson and Col. Wilson in Kashmir, but I 

 am not sure of these two last." 



P. T. L. DODSWORTH, f.z.s. m.b.o.u. 

 "Cakiton" Grove" Simla, S. W., 

 IWi May 1911. 



No. XX.— NESTING NOTES FROM LOWER BURMA. 



On 13th April 1911 I found the nest of the Tweedale Scimitar Babler 

 [PomatorJiinus nuchalis). It was placed on a ledge of rock by the side of 

 the circular road at Thandaung where there is a high cutting. The hill 

 above is covered with heavy bamboo jungle and the dead leaves falling- 

 have collected on the ledges of the rock. The nest was cup-shaped almost 

 covered with the dead leaves and was 3|" deep by 3|" in. diameter (inside). 

 It consisted of dead bamboo leaves loosely rolled round the cup and 

 wrapped round with narrow leaves of a coarse grass between the layers of 

 the bamboo leaves to keep them together. Inside dry grass bents and 

 finished with fine grass. The eggs were 3, measuring l-01"x'76", a pure 

 wliite with a slight glass blunt at larger end. See Vol. XV, p. 519. 



On the 19th April I came across the nest of the Bar-tailed Cuckoo Dove 

 Macropygia tusalia (1312). The nest of sticks was placed on bracken 

 leaves not far from the ground in dense bamboo and undergrowth. Higher 

 up the hill, after the undergrowth had ceased, in bamboo jungle consisting 

 of separate clumps of six, eight or ten bamboos and quite open, I saw a 

 pad of moss where the bamboo shoots take off in a cluster. On going up a 

 long-tailed dove flew oft". I waited 25 minutes and shot it practically on 

 the nest. This consisted of a flat pad of moss almost quite hard about 

 twelve feet up the bamboo. It was difficult to get the egg as I expected 

 it would roll oft" every minute as we telescoped the bamboo. 



The egg measured l'26"x "84", a perfect ellipse and cream tinged with 

 very faint cofl"ee colour. The bird was the Little Malay Cuckoo Dove, 

 Macropygia rvficeps (1314). 



S. M. ROBINSON. 



10, Halpin Road, Rangoon, 



IWi July 1911. * 



No. XXI.— SOME WINTER VISITORS TO RAWAL PINDI. 



It may be of some interest to record the following birds as having come 

 to my notice in Rawal Pindi during the jpast winter. The Wall Creeper 

 {Tichodroma muraria) has been common in the dry stony nullahs that in- 

 tersect the country to the south of the Cantonments. I first noticed it on 



