10<S J. T. Walker — Beeent Trans-Frontier Explorations. [April, 



The paper will be published, with map, in the Journal, Part I. 



After reading the account o£ these explorations, Col. Walker remark- 

 ed that wherever the Mullah struck on routes which had been surveyed by 

 the lamented Lieut. Hay ward there was a very satisfactory accordance 

 between the results of the two explorers, Avhich was the more satisfactory 

 in that they were obtained quite independently. He also stated that very 

 remarkable testimony to the accuracy of Lieut. Hay ward's work had been 

 afforded by the circumstance that several peaks on an important range of 

 hills between the Karambar and the Nagar valleys to the North- West and 

 North of Gilgit, of which the positions had been determined by Lieut. 

 Hayward, have recently been found to have been fixed by the operations of 

 the Trigonometrical Survey, without his knowledge ; and the accordance 

 between the Trigonometrical results and his is sufficiently close to show 

 how careful and accurate that portion of his work must have been. 



Dr. Catlet said — When stationed in Tibet I often heard the native 

 merchants, especially those from Swat and Bajaur, describe their route 

 through Bajaur and then by Wakhan and the Pamir to Yarkand. This 

 was indeed a regular well-known trade route, though the country was but 

 little known to us, and until the recent explorations just described, only very 

 roughly marked in our maps. 



I frequently met Hayward during his travels in Tibet, and was always 

 much struck with his untiring energy and enthusiasm and his little regard 

 for his personal safety and comfort when surveying and exploring. 



I met him in Kashmir just after his return from his first visit to Ya- 

 sin, and it is very gratifying to know that the observations that he took and 

 the survey operations he carried on under such great difficulties and when 

 so jealously watched, were so carefully and accurately done, as confirmed 

 by the recent observations of Col. Walker's native surveyor. 



4. SixtTi List of Birds from the N. B. Frontier of India. — By Lieut.- 

 CoLONEL H. H. Godwin-Austen. 

 (Abstract.) 

 This paper contains a list of birds collected in the Eastern Naga Hills 

 by Mr. A. W. Chennell, and in the low hills near Sadiya and the neighbour- 

 hood of the Brahmakhiind by Mr. W. T. Ogle, during the progress of the 

 Topographical Survey for two seasons. 



One new species, Abrornis fiavogularis^ is thus described. 

 Above, ash-grey, purer grey on rump, rather darker on the head ; 

 wings pale umber-brown, tail ash-brown, the two outer feathers white on 

 the inner web, the next with a narrow edging of white. Lores white, ear 

 coverts white and grey ; chin pure yellow, fading on throat ; breast, nape, 

 flanks and thighs, greyish white; whitest on the breast ; a very faint yellow 



