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gJassef-', but as I was after markhor, I was unable to shoot one for identification. 

 The natives here say there are two sorts of Choughs, one with a long red 

 bill, and the other with a short white one. 



Terpsiplione paradisi — Indian Paradise Flycatcher. — I shot one of these 

 birds about 5 miles from Quetta, at the beginning of May, a male in 'lihe 

 3rd year plumage. 



Saxicola mowac/fa— The Hooded Chat, — I saw a bird, which I believe to 

 be a male of this species, at about 10,000 feet in May. I observe d it carefully 

 with a glass, at about 20 yards distance for some time, but I had no 

 gun to shoot him. This is the only one I have seen. 



Ruticilla ruftventris — Indian Redstart —I found a nest of this redstart in 

 the hills, this Vlay : as there seems no description of the nest in Fauna of 

 British India, Birds, I will describe it. It was placed on a ledge of rock in 

 a small cave about 5 feet from the ground, and was composed outside 

 of strips of the juniper tree bark, lined with finer strips of the same and a 

 few feathers ; it contained 4 eggs, slightly incubated, on May 13tb, rather 

 long ovals, very pale blue. This nest was at about 9,000 feet. I have no 

 doubt there were many other nests on the same hills, as the bird was common 

 in pairs, right up to the top of the hill, over 11,000 feet. 



Lan'ms isabellinus — Pal^-brown Shrike. — I also found a nest of this bird 

 on May 14th this year at about 9,000 feet. It was placed in the middle of a 

 small thorny bush and contained 5 eggs of the usual shrike type. The bird 

 was common all over the hills about this elevation. 



T. E. MARSHALL, Capp., r.a. 

 Qttetta, 3Iay 1902. 



No. XIIL—EURYALE FEROX {NYMPHCEACECE). 

 I see on page 356 of the last Journal of the Society, a note on Euryale 

 ferox {Nymphcjpaccce). This plant grows freely and most luxuriously in the 

 Chatla Fen, Cachar. I have seen many specimens of it in the neighlourhood 

 of Borakhai and Trangmara and many of the leaves are more th:m two feet 

 in diameter. In places it forms such an obstruction that it is difficult to force 

 small boats through it. 



F. J. EDE. 

 SiLCHAR, Cachar, June l&th, 1902. 



No. XIV.— THE PAINTED SAND-GROUSE (PTEROCLES 



FASCIATUS) AND THE WOOD-SNIPE (GALLINAGO 



NEMORWOLA) IN THE PESHAWAR VALLEY. 



I am sending herewith a very delapidated skin of P. fasciatus, merely 



for purposes of identification and to prove that it is found in the Trans-Indus 



portion of the Punjab. P . fu sciatui< ha-* been shot almost every year since 1895 



at Rustora some twenty miles from here in the Buner foot hills by officers of 



the Guides. 



