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"That's a good boy, that's a pretty boy." 
■■ Kiss, kiss, kiss," and imitates kissing. 
Ik- then whistles an octave in pcrfccl time and finishes by piping the 
firs; hal' of " Honnie Dundee." 
Hi.-- voice is very sweet and as ()lain as the best talking Parrot 
I have heard. The interrogatory tone in which he says " Whose pretty, 
Joey ";' is really wonderful. 
I also saw another Hulliincli, nest brother to above, which says : 
" Pretty, pretty," " Kiss, kiss," and whistles an octave. 
I was so charmed by them, that I have been twice to hear them 
pel form. CHARLES DELL. 
Harlcsden 29,9''i5. 
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Birds of the Jhelum District 
and an Ornithological Diary from the Punjab. 
Bv H. Whistler, I.P., M.B.O.U. 
(Continued from page 236). 
Dcfcmber 18. — A party of seven guns, including myself, went to a well- 
known jheel near Sirsa to shoot duck and were rewarded with 
a good bag. This formed a splendid opportunity for observ- 
ing the bird life o f the jheel and I made the following notes. 
Of Ducks, by far the most numerous were Common Teal 
and a long way after them came the Shovellers; Spot-bill {Anas 
poecilor/i ynclia) were perhaps next common, but there were also 
a large number of Pintail and Gadwell. The Mai lard had ap- 
parently not yet arrived for very few were seen and only one 
was brought to bag. With the exception of some eight or 
ten Ruddy Sheldrakes and a few Tufted Duck no o;her species 
was actually killed or identified. 
Very large numbers of Geese arrived on the jheel at mifl» 
day, while we were lunching, but they were too cunning to 
give any of the guns a chance, cither resting on the water, 
water well out in the middle, or else rising up high into the 
sky and l ircling above tlie jheel far out of shot before Hying 
away. I'wo flocks of Demoiselle Cranes [Antlii opo'dcs vir^ro^ 
were seen, hut only one Pelican, in place of the numbers that 
were here when I last visited ihe spot. .A small (lock o£ 
White -Storks [Ciroiiiu alba' and about twenty Herons iArcIca 
cincrca] completed the list oi the larger birds. 
\\aders were not particularly noticeable; a small partv of 
Curlew left one of their number behind to grace my collection, 
and there were a few Redshanks. Green .Sandpipers, and Marsh 
Sandpipers about the edges of the water. Here and there 
from the rushy patches a Snipe was flushed. 1 only saw one 
party of Stints. 
Of Plover were noted a solitary Green Lapwing and some 
