THE NEST OF THE GRET- 

 WINGED OUZEL 



On several occasions this year (1910) I have 

 listened with unalloyed pleasure to the sweet 

 blackbird-like song of the grey-winged ouzel 

 {Merula boulbouV) at Naini Tal — a station in 

 the Himalayas, consisting of over a hundred 

 bungalows dotted on the well-wooded hillsides 

 that tower 1200 feet above a mountain lake 

 that is itself 6000 feet above the level of the 

 sea. On the northern slope of one of the 

 mountains on the north side of the Naini Tal 

 lake, is a deep ravine, through which runs a 

 little stream. The sides of the ravine are 

 covered with trees — mainly rhododendron, oak, 

 and holly. 



On July I St I went 1000 feet down this 

 ravine to visit the nest of a spotted forktail 

 {Henicurus maculatus) which I had discovered 

 a week previously. Having duly inspected 



the blind, naked, newly-hatched forktails, I 



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