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breeding season, form their chief article of consumption at 
this time/^ I again call attention here to the remarkable 
fact, long since noticed by Captain Hutton — viz., that to 
the Himalayas, at any rate west of the Ganges, the Kokila 
is only a spring and summer visitant. At Massuri for 
instance, they arrive early in the summer, rear their young 
and retire family by family as the autumn sets in. In the 
valley of the Sutlej near Kotegurh they are common in the 
summer, but not a straggler is to be seen there in winter. 
"Where do they go to ? Not further into the interior of 
the hills certainly, for they could find no food there; 
not to the low warm valleys at the foot of the hills. None 
are ever to be seen in winter, even in the Dhoon, where food 
is abundant and the Crocopi remain all the year round. 
They must migrate eastward, but I cannot hear of any 
considerable autumnal influx of this species into Assam, 
Tipperah, or elsewhere. The matter is really worth the 
investigation of Indian ornithologists ; vast multitudes of a 
large and conspicuous species, tenanting during the sum- 
mer a zone of hills varying from 20 to 100 miles in 
width, and stretching at any rate from the borders of 
Afghanistan to the banks of the Ganges at Hurdwar, 
absolutely desert us during the autumn and winter, and no 
one has as yet been able to explain satisfactorily where they 
go to. [A. O. H.] 
787. Palumbsena Eversmanni, Bp. (PI. xxxi.) 
A single specimen, a male, and possibly a young bird, 
was shot on the 8th of October at Chagra above the Pan- 
gong lake, at an elevation of 16,000 feet, [G. H.^ 
This bird is precisely similar to numerous specimens 
killed by myself during the cold season in the Sirsa dis- 
trict of the Panjab. It had (according to Dr. Henderson's 
note) the legs, feet, and tip of the bill, both pink and 
reddish pink. The colours of these parts are somewhat 
variable according, I think, to age. 
This species visits the plains of Upper India (rarely 
wandering more than 150 miles from the foot of the 
hills) in large flocks during the cold weather. They take 
