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on the head, and the yellow eyelids are points which serve to 
identify this little bird from its larger relative; since size 
alone is not much guide to the species, unless, as often hap- 
pens, both birds occur in the same llock. 
The bird is, I think, both a resident and a migrant in 
these parts: for instance here in Jhelum one may expect 
to find a few birds all the year round, yet about the second 
week of October 1 was accustomed to find a small llock of 
these birds mixed with Kentish Plover (which are migratory) 
on the golf course by tlie river and on the sandbanks: yet 
the flock vanished as it had arrived, suddenly, so probably had 
rested on migration. 
The eggs are similar to those of the English lling 
Plover, Aeglalidfi hiaticula, but are smaller; they are laid in 
a hollow on the sand in April and May . ' 
As the down plumage is not described in any of my 
books, I append the full description taken from young birds 
that hatched from a clutch of three eggs, taken on '22/4/' 1 .'3.: 
Lores and forehead white; crown and nape rufous and 
grey mixed, bounded by black lines, running from the lores 
and through the eye to meet on the nape a broad pure white 
collar round the neck bounded below by a second, broader, 
but not so mtensc black line. Upper surface a mixture 
of rufous grey and brown boi'dered all round by a black line; 
tail tuft black; wings, basal half the same as the upper sur- 
face, the remainder pure white, the division of colours be- 
ing marked by a broad black line diagonally from the elbow 
to the wrist. Under surface pure white tinged with rufous 
on the flanks and vent. 
In describing the above few species I have only just 
touched the fringe of Indian river life : as much and more 
again might be found to write about the Ducks, Geese, Storks^ 
Herons, Sandpipers, etc., etc., to say nothing of the smaller 
Passerines which haunt the grass jungles and the birds of prey 
which And their living along the shores or in the water. 
Ducorps' Cockatoo. 
{Cacatua ducorpsi)- 
By S. Williams, F.Z.S. 
In response to our Editor's request for copy I am 
penning these few notes of my Ducorps' Cockatoo. 
