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SOME BIRDS AND BIRDS^ NESTS FROM 

 HAKA, CHIN HILLS. 



BY 



Captain ¥. E. W. Venning. 



The following short list of such birds and birds' nests as I was 

 Incky enough to find at Haka is forwarded with the hope that it 

 may encourage some one else to observe the very abundant 

 bird life in that happy spot from which, to my regret, I have now 

 been transferred. Most of the skins obtained were sent to Major 

 H. H, Harington who took them home with him and identified 

 them for me and my thanks are due to him for his valuable advice 

 and encouragement to my first efforts in ornithology, and for his 

 remarks on these notes which I have interpolated in the places 

 where they apply, putting them in square brackets followed by 

 the initials H. H. H. 



The numerals and nomenclature are those of the " Fauna of 

 British India." 



CORVIDJE. 



Corvine. 



(4) The Jungle Crow, Gorvus macrorhynchus. — Called by the 

 Chins " Ak " (like the English word " Ark "^ or more parti- 

 cularly " Klang (mountain) Ak," the monosyllable being a very 

 good representation of the bird's call. Very common, but I found 

 no nests. The elytra and other hard parts of dung beetles were 

 found in the stomach of one. 



(12) The Red-billed Blue Magpie, Urocissa ocdintalis. — Plen- 

 tiful, generally to be seen going about in families of six or eight 

 which always attract attention by their harsh scolding. One 

 brought alive by a Chin. No nests found. Perhaps Z7. flavirostris 

 also occurs. 



[Recorded by Col. Rippon from Mt. Victoria. There is also a 

 skin of his from the same locality of U. flavirostris. — H. H. H.] 



Paring. 



(34) Green-backed Tit, Parus monticola. — Very common. Two 



