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line from the eye, above the earcoverts, produced to meet the dark colour 

 of the back. The earcoverts, chha, and throat are tipped with arrow marks 

 of a lighter brown; the feather bristles of the lores have black ends. 



The upper parts from the lower neck including the tail and wings are 

 dark sooty brown with a dark bluish sheen, all feathers edged with iDinkish 

 brown, the edges growing more pronounced on the wing coverts and rump ; 

 the tail with a terminal bar of pale buff, about half an inch wide, and with 

 some pinkish buft' markings on the basal portion of the inner webs. The 

 wing quills spotted with pinkish buff. The edge of the wing pale buff. 

 The undervving coverts dark-brown with buff and rufous edges, the larger 

 feathers, being only tipped with those colours, and with a spot on each side 

 of the shaft near the base. Axillaries similar but wanting the basal spot. 



The underparts from the throat are very dark-brown with the base of 

 the feathers, buff in varying degrees — the buff being more or less visible ; 

 the iianks edged with buff. Vent and undertail coverts very dark-brown 

 with buff tips, the brown being partly concealed. 



H. WHISTLER, m.b.o.u., 

 Jhelum, 12iA May 1913. Indian Police. 



No. XVII.— OCCUERENCE OF THE EMERALD DOVE, CHALCO- 

 PHAPS INDICA (Linn) IN THE SIMLA DISTRICT. 



Last February, I came across this species on several occasions, in a 

 wooded ravine, abovit 30 miles east of Simla, elevation 5,000 feet. Strange 

 to say, however, I found it nowhere else in these parts. It is possible I 

 may have overlooked it, and that it extends throughout the lesser ranges 

 of the Punjab Himalayas. Its extreme western range is still doubtful — it 

 is apparently not Kashmir proper, as Ward is emphatic that it does not 

 occur in that country. 



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

 Simla, 2lst May 1913. 



No. XVIII.— MIGRATION OF FULL SNIPE. 



As I was riding along the left bank of the old bed of the Ravi at Sundhar 

 Chak at 5-30 p.m. on the 10th May, I saw a full snipe Gallinago ccelestis 

 flying due north up the millstream. A half gale and dust-storm was 

 blowing from the north at the time, and the bird seemed to find some 

 difficulty in making headway. I saw him rise and make a flight of about 

 50 yards, then flushed him, and sent him another 50 yards. He went away 

 quite silently and my first impression was that he was a wounded bird. 

 But when I flushed him a second time he went away very strong indeed 

 right in the teeth of the wind and almost straight. I then concluded that 

 he was flighting to the hills. Sundhar Chak is about seven miles below 

 Madhopur where the Ravi debouches from the hills. The Ravi water is 

 barely 60° F. at this time of year and never rises above 76°, so perhaps 

 migrants who frequent land watered by it are enabled to make better 

 weather of the heat in May here than in other places. Snipe were about 

 in the Permanand jhil on April 5th, but had by then evidently started to 

 migrate ; and I suspect that my friend of May 10th was very belated in his 

 movements. 



G. C. L. HOWELL. 

 Malikpuk, Upper Bari Dorab Canal, 

 lUh May 1913. 



