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Major Horsbrugh’s Indian Collection.



White-capped Redstart.

Blue-fronted Redstart.


Indian Redstart.


Plumbeous Redstart.


Persian Nightingale.

Ruby-throated Warblers.


Golden Bush Robin.

Brown-backed Robins.


Shamas. Dyals.


Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush.

Blue-headed Rock Thrushes.

White’s Thrush or


Small-billed Mountain Thrush.

Orange-headed Ground Thrushes.

Maroon Orioles.


Beautiful Rosefinches.


Brown Bullfinch.


Large Pied Wagtails.


Masked Wagtails.


Blue-headed Wagtails.


Indian Tree Pipit.


Yellow-backed Red Sunbirds.



Y ellow-backed Black-breasted Sunbird

Purple Sunbird.


Loten’s Sunbird.


Amethyst-rumped Sunbirds.


Tickell’s Flower Pecker.

Green-breasted Pitta.


Pigmy Woodpeckers.


Pigmy Pied Woodpecker.

Yellow-fronted Pied Woodpecker.

Golden-backed Woodpecker.

Coppersmith Barbets.


Blue Rollers.


Glossy Calornis.


Jungle Babbler.


Verditer Flycatchers.


Crow Pheasant.


Brahminy Kites.


Black-winged Lories.


Forsten’s Lory.


Plovers.


Grey-winged Ouzel.


Tickell’s Ouzel.



One wonders when such rare species will be seen again,

especially as I hear the Germans are now keenly exploiting India

and her mountains for birds.


Major Horsbrugh is to be congratulated upon having intro¬

duced to English aviculturists many species which have been im¬

ported for the first time into Europe, and Mr. Frost must likewise

be congratulated upon his success in collecting them, and his untiring

zeal in keeping them alive under very difficult and adverse circum¬

stances. Had he only brought the Sunbirds, he might have rested

content, and perhaps for beauty and fascination these were the

gems. When those crimson-breasted ones moult out, they will

indeed be jewels ; rubies, topaz and flecks of sapphire. One knows

what it is to tend twenty or thirty birds in cages, when they are in

good health and safely at home ; but to look after four hundred at

sea, many suffering from cramped quarters, cold winds and turbulent

waters, is a task that most would shrink from and many refuse.


We hope to hear later on in more detail of some of these

rare birds, as members of the Society have opportunities of writing

about them.



