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small jungles and rukhs I have found tamarind thorn trees full of such 

 nests. 



A curious instance of a double nest was that of an Eastern Meadow 

 Bunting iEonberiza strachei) which had built, under a stone, two nests along 

 side of one another. One of these was empty, the other contained four 

 young. 



The Crested Bunting {Lmberiza melcmicterus) was quite common on the 

 Murree-Srinagar tonga road between Dulai and TJri. The bird was often 

 to be seen singing perched on the telegraph wires. 



In company with a few Snow Pigeons ( Columha leuconyx) which had their 

 nests in holes in the limestone rocks of the famous pilgrims cave of 

 Amarnath (13,000 feet) was a small colony of Kashmir House Martins 

 {Chdidon kashmiriensis.) A further instance of the desolate wild and 



Amaexath Valley C 13,000 ), where the famous pilg-rims cave 

 is and in which the Kashmir Martin (C.ltaslimirensis) was 

 found breeding-. The bottom of the valley is all snow. Taken 

 Aug-. 16. 



elevated regions to which these Martins resort for breeding purposes in 

 some parts of their range. 



On the 30th June a friend, when descending a hill above Sonemarg, 

 disturbed a bird nesting on the ground at about 11,000 feet. The nest 

 contained four eggs which he described as dull whitish in colour and fairly 

 densely speckled with brownish purple. Two days later we visited the 

 spot together and found the eggs hatched and four young in the nest. 

 I watched the female on to the nest and got a close view of her through 

 glasses. From the broad bold streaks on the breast, the comparatively small 

 amount of white visible in the tail in flight and the light flesh coloured legs I 



