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tossing the leaves about with its ample-sized bill, as though it were in the 

 General Post Office sorting letters. It is not the leaves, however, that 

 it directs its attention to, but the tit-bits in the way of grubs that it is intent 

 on. The nest of Zoothera, which I found by some lucky chance, is a biggish 

 mound of damp green moss outside, neatly rounded of sides, broad at the base, 

 and tapering a bit towards the top. Inside, the nest is a neat, cup-shaped 

 hollow, with soft fibres, black hair-like moss roots, and fibrous shreds off a 

 creeping plant. Eggs are Temminckioi " (whatever this means !) Presumably 

 the eggs resembled those of Myiophoneus temminckii in which case they must 

 have been of some shade of grey-green with brown (or pink) markings. 

 There is some resemblance between this description of the nest and eggs and 

 that of the nest and eggs shown to Mr. Martin by Mrs. Goban. 



Simla, S. BASIL-EDWARDES. 



7th May 1920. 



X.— RE-OCCURRENCE OF THE INDIAN PITTA {PITTA 

 BRACHYVRA) IN THE DARBHANGA DISTRICT, BEHAR. 



On the 5th of this month I got a female of this species in some bamboos. 

 The only other occasions on which this species was got here were on the 13tli 

 and 21st May 1904 as recorded in Vol. XVI, p. 72 of this Journal ; so tha' 

 this bird has put in an appearance after an absence of nearly 16 years. 



CHAS. M. INGLIS, f.z.s., m.b.o.tt. 

 Baghownie Fty., Laiieria Sarai., 

 mh May 1920. 



No. XI— SOME BIRDS OBSERVED IN SOUTH WAZIRISTAN. 



On the 24th May I was delayed by the effects of a severe hail storm at Piaza 

 Raghza, a camp situated on a plateau 5,000 feet above sea level in the Tank 

 Zam valley of South Waziristan. I noted the following birds there during 

 the day and evening : — 



Paradise Fly-Catcher. 



Sooty Fly-Catcher. 



Spotted Fly-Catcher. 



Indian Golden Oriole. 



Black-headed Jay. 



Magpie. 



Bay-backed Shrike. 



Rujfous-backed Shrike. 



White-cheeked Bulbul. 



Jungle Crow. 



White-breasted Kingfisher 



Spotted Kingfisher. 

 a i Myna. 



o I Blue Rock Pigeon. 

 q ! Drongo. 



I Grey Wagtail. 



I Sparrow. 



I Little brown Dove. 



I Scavenger Vulture. 



I Indian Vulture. 



I Lammergeyer 



I Bonelli's Eagle. 



I Wire tailed Swallow. 



LSand Martin 



Terpsiphone paradisii. 

 Hemichelidon sibirica. 

 Muscicapa griseola. 

 Oriolus kundoo. 

 Garrulus sp. 

 Pica rustica. 

 Lanius vittaius. 

 L. erythronotus. 

 Molpastes leucogenys. 

 Gorvus niacrorhynchus. 

 Holcyon smyrnensis. 

 Alcedo sp. 



Acridotheres tristis. 

 Columba intermedia. 

 Dicrurus ater. 

 Motacilla melanope. 

 Passer domesticus. 

 Turtur cambayensis. 

 Neophron ginginianus. 

 Gyps sp. 



Gypaetui harbatus. 

 Hieraetus fasciatus. 

 Hirundo smithvi. 

 Cotile sinensis. 



