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was the Paradise fly-catcher, which is not uncommon 
in the Panjab. Some of the specimens I shot had 
the long tail feathers partly white and partly 
chestnut coloured. The birds were breeding, and I 
obtained several nests with eggs. 
On May 27th we left Achibal early in the morning 
for Islamabad, six miles distant, where boats were 
waiting to convey us down the river Jhelum to 
Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. I made a detour of 
five miles to Martand, and obtained some fair photo- 
graphs of the old temple, which is one of the finest 
ruins in the country. We embarked in our boats at 
Islamabad in the afternoon, and next morning reached 
Srinagar, about fifty miles distant, by water. 
Again the weather was unfavourable, for it rained 
incessantly the whole night. 
The journey by boat down the Jhelum is one of 
the most pleasant trips I know of, when the weather is 
fine, as it usually is in Kashmir ; and travelling by 
boat is all the more relished after some days or weeks 
of difticult marching over the hills. The Jhelum 
river abounds with fish, but it is only at certain 
spots, such as under the bridges or wherever there is 
an eddy, that good rod fishing is to be had. The 
boatmen, however, are very expert at catching fish 
with a large hand net, under the boats which are 
moored along the banks, and in this way the kitchen 
is usually well supplied. 
The Kashmir boats used for long journeys are ex- 
ceedingly comfortable. Each boat is about five feet 
wide in the centre, by forty to sixty feet long, and 
tapers to a point at either end. The boatmen 
occupy the bow and stern, where they have arrange- 
