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Birds of the Jheliim District. 
*Mr. C T. Maxwell exhibited a fine, eage-moultcJ male of this 
species, which was practically full natural colour. 
RESULTS, 1914. 
Sir, — Results in my aviary this year have been very small, viz. : 
2 Zebra Finches and 2 Uouldian Finches reared. 
The latter were hatched very late — the end of September — in a 
box in the shelter, and, as far as I could see were fed entirely on seed. 
if any of our local members would care to sec the young Goulds 
in their immature green plumage I should be very happy to arrange for 
them on hearing to that effect. 
Edinburgh, J. CURRIE. 
24/12/'14. 
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Birds of the Jhelum District and an Ornithol- 
ogical Diary from the Punjab. 
13r H. Whistlek, I. P., M.B.O.U. 
September 1. — When driving round the grass farm I saw a large 
Eagle, apparently Aquila vindhiana make a short but 
fine stoop on to a thorn bush, where she remained bal- 
ancing with outstretched wings and tail while she pulled at 
something. I went up to see what it was, and .she rose with 
empty talons to settle on a neighbouring bush . The only 
quarry that I could find in the bush, was a nest contain- 
ing a half -feathered young Babbler. Apparently the Eagle 
had been eating its brothers and sisters ! 
Another interesting episode was the finding of a nest 
of the White -throated Munia {Vroloncha malabarica) or 
" Silverbill " — a 1 arge ball of flowering grasses, shaped 
roughly like a Rugby football with the entrance at one 
end. On the few budded heads of some herb which served 
as lining were lying 22 eggs — the produce of several hens, 
doubtless. These little birds apparently often adopt such 
social -like principles, and it is a cotmmon event to find six 
or seven roosting or sitting in an old nest. 
Visited Rajpura jheel where numbers of Nightjars were 
found in a patch of dry grass jungle near the water. They 
were all moulting birds probably on migration, as I have 
seen none there before. I have not yet succeeded in itien- 
tifying the exact species of the three birds which 1 shot 
and skinned, but they appear to be Franklin's Nightjar 
(^Caprhnnlgus rnontkola). Some pairs of the Pheasant-tailed 
Jacana and an immature Cormorant {Phalacrocorax carlo) 
are etill at the jheel. Two eggs in a nest of the Ring Dove 
{Tiiriur nsoiius), and young in a nest of Franklinia bw 
