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can. The production of its young does not occur at irregular intervals and 

 independent of season, but the calves are born in the early Spring, about 

 the month of March. The cold and scarcity of food greatly thin their 

 numbers and one nomad told me that he had lost as many as twenty ani- 

 mals in the preceding Winter. It is dependent not on the care and atten- 

 tion of its owners but on the abundance of food and the clemency of the 

 season. It lives in a continual struggle with the fiercest elements of 

 Nature in the bitter cold of those silent altitudes. 



R. W. G, KINGSTON, Capt., i.m.s. 

 Abbot lABAD, February 1914. 



No. X.— INTERESTING BIRDS FROM JHELUM DISTRICT, 



PUNJAB. 



The following birds obtained or noted in Jhelum District during the past 

 year are perhaps of sufiicient interest to be placed on record. 



1. The Spotted Flycatcher {Muscicajm grisola, Linn). — A single male 

 obtained at Sardi (2,900 ft.) in the Salt Range on 10th September 1913. I 

 can find no previous record for the Punjab. 



2. The White-throated Fantail-Flycatcher {Rhijoidura albicollis, Vieill.) — 

 A pair seen in the District Board Garden at Jhelum on 5th November 1913 

 and a single bird seen in the same place on 13th January 1914. 



3. The Dark-grey Bush-Chat {Oreicola ferrea, Hodgs.) — Two males were 

 obtained in the District Board Garden at Jhelum on 20th October 1913 and 

 27th February 1914, respectively. 



4. The Red-flanked Bush Robin (lantUa rufilata, .Hodgs.)— A single 

 female was obtained in the Government Forest Rak at Jhelum on 2nd 

 January 1914. 



5. The Pine Bunting {Emberiza leucocephala, S. G. Gm.) — An adult male 

 was obtained from a small flock on the Golf course at Jhelum on 18th Feb- 

 ruary 1914, and a solitary female was obtained at Dumman on 3rd March 

 1914. In addition to the above I saw a number of birds probably of this 

 species at Dhodha, P. S. Dumman, on 10th April 1913. This appears to be 

 an extension of the known range. 



6. The Great Himalayan Barbet {Megalcema marshallorum, Swinh.). — 

 A single female was obtained at Jhelum on 1st April 1914. It was moving 

 about in tall trees in my compound and was rather shy. 



7. The Smew {Mergus albellus, Linn.)— On 12th January 1914, I secured a 

 female out of a small flock that were busily engaged in diving in the Jhelum 

 river, a few miles above Jhelum. 



8. The Turkestan Pendulme Titmouse {Anthoscopus coronatus, Sewerz.)— 

 On 27th March 1914, I met with a small party of three or four birds feeding 

 in a Shisham tree in the Government Rak at Jhelum. I had no gun with 

 me but was able to examine them from a very short distance and so identify 

 them from the grey crown, very broad black eye band extending from the 

 lores to the nape, chestnut mantle, cream white and rufous underparts. I 

 have no doubt whatever but that the birds were correctly identified, and 

 from the previous reported occurrences at Sukkur and Kohat it is nob very 

 curious that stragglers should be found at Jhelum. 



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HUGH WHISTLER, m.b.o.u., 

 Indian Police. 



Jhelum, March 1914. 

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