MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 4O3 



One r Common Indian Nightjar. Caprimulgus asialicm. 

 only. ^Cuckoo Cuculm canorus. 



f Crested Lark. Galerita cristata. 



I J Sky Lark. ^;«j,^„ (jnlgxda. 



^ i Dark-grey Bush-Chat. Oreicola ferrea. 



' Co™ Bimting. Emberiza sp. 



The commonest or most noticeable were the Paradise and Sooty Fly-catchers 

 Golden Orioles and Magpies ; and Himalayan Black-headed Jays ' 



The above list of birds extended up to Ladha (near Kaniguram) in the Baddar 

 ioi, branch of the Tank Zam. The foliage was Holy-oak, Willow, Poplars, 

 Mulberries, a certain number of fruit trees in small plateau orchards, and the 

 elevation extended to 5,500 feet. 



The numbers of birds of course would be very much greater than this list. 

 This list merely indicates the birds \^'hich were immediately noticeable whilst 

 moving up the valley. 



CORRIE HUBSON, Col., i.m.s. 

 Dera Ismail Khan, 



dlst May 1920. 



No. XII.— ABNORMAL COLOURED EGG OF THE PHEASANT- 

 TAILED J AC ANA {HYDROPH ASIAN US OH I RU ROUS.) 



As is well known this bird usually lays oUve-brown coloured eggs varying in 

 depth of tint. On the 28th of May this year I got a clutch of four ; three were of 

 the usual ohve-brown colour, but one of those was spotted with brown; 

 the foui'th was of a beautiful pure pale greenish blue or sea green in colour. They 

 were all of the usual peg top shape and quite fresh. Colonel Butler \vi-iting in 

 *■ Hume's Nests and Eggs" says : — " One egg I possess, which I took out of a 

 nest containing three other fresh eggs of the olive-brown type, is pa'.e sea 

 green all over. I have never seen another Jacana egg hke it." 



This is the first time I have ever seen a pale sea green egg of this species and 

 I must have seen hundreds of eggs nor have I heard of one being got since 

 Colonel Butler wrote the above. The 6th May is the earliest date on which 

 I have found eggs of this species, 



Baghownie Fty., CHAS. M. INGLIS, f.z.s., M.B.o.r. 



Darbhanga Dtstkict, 

 1th June 1920. 



No. Xlll.— EVERSMAN'S REDSTART. {PH(ENICURUS 

 ERYTHRONOTA, EVERSM.) 



The spell of cold weather in January 1903 having brought th-is beautiful 

 Redstart prominently before my notice, I had occasion recently to took up 

 various points connected with it, and finding the information in the Fauna of 

 British India to be somewhat meagre and out of date, consider it may bo 

 of interest to set forth the results of my investigation. 



In the Fauna it is stated that Eversman's Redstart is " a winter visitor to 

 every portion of Cashmere, extending on the west to Hazara and Afglianistan, 

 and on to Asia Minor. The most easterly locality from which I have seen a speci- 

 men of this bird is Kotokhai in the Himalayas. In summer this R*>dstai;t is 

 found in. Turkestan, and even in Mongolia and Siberia, if R. alasclianica. PrJpv., 

 should prove to be the same species as is probable." I may remark first of all 

 that Hartert (Vog. Pal. Fauna. I. 728) has kept the latter bird iis a separate 

 species although the two forms are certainly very closely allied. Hartert gives 



