220 Birds iJi and about the Station {Bakloh). 
The little shriek of delight they gave as they settled on my 
hand to suck the broken pupa was ample repayment. 
I got four more in Calcutta in 1904 (I think) but they came 
out of a crowded cage, were never really bright and succumbed 
to tliree months' hardship in camp. I have founid them, till 
this year, difficult to trap ; lime was disastrous and was discarded ; 
my baits of fruit and insects were ignored. I cannoi say I tried 
very liard as at the time when I was best equipped for trapping I 
was not keen on trapping White-eyes. This year I tried some 
fine "drop-nets" I got last year from Mr. Frost, and was very 
successful. 
The following letter which I am sending to the Bombay 
Natural History Society, though not strictly avicultural, may 
prove of interest. 
Seasonal Change of Plumage of the 
Indian White-eye. 
" In May 1901 I caught a White-eye which was visiting 
my newly-built aviary to talk with some tame White-eyes I had. 
He had a bright chestnut forehead. I did not think much of it 
at the time as my book knowledge of this species was but slight, 
though well acquainted with it alive, both wild and in captivity. 
He died soon. Not long after, I looked up the book and was 
astonished to find no mention of a White-eye with chestnut 
forehead nor of a seasonal change of plumage. Till this year 
(1909) no other similarly coloured ones have been observed 
by me, though I must confess that I did not particularly look out 
for them, and that in some years I had no opportunity of 
observing White-eyes at all. 
" About mid-April this year I noticed several with chestnut 
foreheads, and pointed this out. to my bird friends in the 
Regiment. Major Sealy, a very keen observer and field naturalist, 
and Mr. Kennedy, a fellow avicullurist. Wanting a couple of 
pairs for my aviary I set a "drop-net" near a flowering shrub 
the birds visited and soon had a bird. I was rather disai)pointed 
to find the forehead only rusty coloured. I put it down as a hen, 
correct but a fluke. Her mate (or rather a mate) was caught the 
next dav, and he had a fine chestnut forehead. The hen died at 
once; it is a bad season to "meat off" in, and I determined to 
