308 A Hundred Yards Bird Stroll. 
head, lores, checks, rar-rovcrls, and throat brown; under- 
parts yellowish green. 
They differ from C. acriinritiosns by having' no orange 
around eye or on breast. 
In ("onrlusion I would say that they arc very pretty 
and desirable aviary birds. 
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A Hundred Yard's Bird Stroll. 
Bv Major G. A. Perreau, F.Z.S. 
I" 1 hf loliiiwing cxU'arts arc from a privntc letter and were not 
written for pu.lilicatiun. but I liavc tak^ii tlic liljerty of using tUem, as of 
inlcresf to ni;iny reader^— in such circ.nnatant e> the notes must not be taken 
as comprehensive of the liirds of the compound, but merely the passing 
obstivation oJ half an hour, and therein, we think, 1 es its chief charm.— Ed, J , 
" I have been away on the frontier and was glad to 
"get a spell here again. . . there have been a lot of fires 
■"among the pines (Chil, not deodar) round and a bit higher 
"up, and the station is full of birds. Crossing the nullah 
"between my (ompound and that of a brother officer is an 
" excjuisite d?l:ght, and looking down a sma'.l glen at the side 
"of my compound is almost better. In the former I stand 
" still and gloat, just turning my head slowly to watch some 
"particular bird. After a bit a White-eye will say " Hulloa, 
"now what can that be?" and sounds the call for the in- 
"quisitive; and, though there was previously no dearth of 
"birds, one is surprised at the number that appear almost at 
"once: twenty to thirty White-eyes, half as many pretty 
" Yellow and Grey Warblers, some charming Red-billed Tit- 
" Babblers, I can never see more than two at a .-'time, but 
"feel there must be more -this is a very rare bird here, 
"though there have been a few often in my compound for 
"some years, and a few inquisitive White-cheeked Bulbuls. 
"These all come close, to inspect and talk a good deal, the 
■ Flycatchers (Paradise and Fantail), who have been playing 
" round some way off, come close and take a hand, two 
" families of I^aradise, with two lovely white cocks and a 
"pair of Fantail. These last regularly attack me always 
"from behind — poor little things! it is not I who am respons- 
" ible for your new but destroyed nest a few yards off. If 
"you'd get a more under shelter with that nest, as you 
