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called the navel, %?», or heart, «-*!*, or belly ^* of the fish &&*-*Jl, or 

 i&yx f ; sometimes the moon takes up her mansion in the lesser fish, which 

 is farther to the north of the greater fish. These two constellations 

 resemble each other, but the lesser fish is broader and shorter than the 

 greater. Another (the star) of them rises at the same time in the 

 east. Nawo, means rising with a weight ; some say that nawo means also 

 setting, and that this is one of those words which have opposite mean- 

 ings. The sun is in every one of the mansions of the moon 13 days, 

 and after he has passed through them he returns into the first. If a 

 change of weather takes place when one of these stars sets and another 

 rises, the Arabs ascribe it to the star thorayya, dabran, haq'ah, 

 han'ah or dzira'. Summer is called qaytz by the Bedouins and cayf 

 by towns-people, it begins when the sun enters into the Crab. The 

 stars of the mansions of the moon are — nathrah, t&rf, jabhah, zobrah, 

 carfah, 'awwa and simak. 



The meaning of nawo (plur. anwa) is that one of these twenty-eight 

 stars sets in the west in the morning. 



Notes on the Nidification of Indian Birds. By Captain Thomas 

 Hutton, F. G. S. 



(Continued from No. 193, for July 1848.) 



No. 2\.—"Psilorhinus occipitalis:' (Blyth, J. A. S. XV, 27). 

 "Pica erythrorhyncha" (Gould's Century.) 

 " Psilorhinus albicapillus." (Blyth, nestling plumage.) 

 This species occurs at Mussooree throughout the year, collecting into 

 small parties of 4 to 6 during winter. It breeds at an elevation of 

 5,000 feet in May and June, making a loose nest of twigs externally, 

 lined with roots. 



The eggs are from 3 to 5, of a dull greenish ash-grey, blotched and 

 speckled with brown dashes, confluent at the larger end. Diameter 

 I jl ^ ib i nc hes. The ends nearly equal in size. The nest is built on 

 trees, sometimes high up ; at others about 8 or 10 feet from the ground. 

 The "Psilorhinus albicapillus" of Mr. Blyth, is nothing more than 

 the nestling of this species, as I have fully ascertained this season by 



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