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Birds of the Jhclum District. 
Jan. 12. — Drove out, to a ford up the river, and on the way, seeing a 
pair of Red-headed Alerlins (JEsalon chicqucra), stopped 
and set up a net with a live Quail as bait ; the male came 
at once and made some pretty stoops without taking the 
Quail or being himself caught ; the female then stooped 
down and was caught at once ; however, one of her claws 
was missing so I released her, though I had been wanting 
one of the species for training . 
At the same place a pair of Eagles were at a largo 
nest on the summit of an enormous thorn tree, but there 
were no eggs . 
A Lugger Falcon (Fulco jugger) seen. (See plati't. 
The birds noted on the river were as on January 4th 
with the following additions. There were at least iiO 
Cormorants (Phalacrocorax carho) either sitting on the 
stones at the water's edge or swimming with their bodies 
deeplj' submerged ; at one spot three were drying their wings 
in the sun in the characteristic manner of the species. They 
were rather shy ,and small parties kept on rising before 
me, settling again further on down the river. 
After carefully manoeuvring my little, boat towards 
a party of small Ducks that were diving persistently in 
some rather shallow water, I secured one and found it to 
be a female Smew (Mcrgns albeUus) — the first I have met 
with, though they are stated to be not uncommon in N.W. 
India during the winter. 
f'rom the steep sandy bank of the river I flushed a Wall 
Creeper (Tichodroma itniraria) — the first seen in this dis- 
trict north-west of here. 
One or two Pallas' Fishing Eagles {Haliactus Jeucnry- 
phui) about ; one took a dead Teal from the water, but 
I preferred to lose the Duck to shooting the Eagle . 
One Warty-headed Ibis {Inocotis papillosus), a pair 
of Lesser King Plovers (JSgialitis dnbia), a Redshank or 
two. and some flocks of small Waders seen. 
Jan. 13. — A White-throated Fantail-Flycatcher (Rhipidara albicnllis) 
noted in the District Board Garden : this is a very rare 
winter visitor here, but I noticed what may have been 
the same bird with another near the same place on Novem- 
ber 5th. The resident species is the White-eyebrowed Fan- 
tail Flycatcher {H . albif roviata) but its numbers also 
appear to be reinforced during the winter months. 
The Sparrow Hawk (of Jan. 8th) is still haunting the 
same place, where also to-day was seen a female Shikra 
{Anlur badius) — see plate. 
Saw what appeared to be a Carrion Crow (Corvas 
coronc) with the Crows in the Eak. 
