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Birds of the Jhelum District. 
cry uttered in flight ; and were oprasionally very noisy in 
the evening in their nests. They form one of the typical 
features of the Punjab villages nesting in thi' roofs of the 
houses and hawking about in swarms in the immediate 
vicinity — a village is very rieh in inseit life of cvnry 
description ! The nests are of various shapes and sizes, 
from a mere pad in a hole to a large hemispherical 
structure with an entrance funnel attached to the iinder- 
surface of a beam of rock, made of a miscellaneoua assort- 
ment of feathers and straws stuck together with saliva. On 
occasion I havt, found an old ne^t of a Striated Swallow 
utilised by a pair of this species — a similar occurrence was 
doubtless responsible for fhc statement that the Indian 
Swift built a mud nest. The eggs are of course white, of 
the typical cypseline type. In these parts I have noted 
them about in every month of the year except December 
and January ; they are, however, scarcer in October and 
November, and but few appear in Febriiary. 
March 5. — From Dumman to C'hakwal, finding on the way one egg in a 
nest of Aqnila ritidliiatia, situated in a side fork of a 
very tali Shisham Tr e ■, I Hushed the bird with difficulty, 
and she at once settled some 50 yards away on the next tree, 
allowing me to ride up under the tree and scrutinise her 
with my glasses, to observe the ear-shaped nostril. Also 
found two new nests of the Indian Grey Shrike Laniu.i 
lahiora in thorn trees. 
In the evening at Ohakwal there were a large number 
of Tufted Duck with a few Common Pochards on the village 
tank . 
March 6. — In a small marshy valley I found some seven or eight Ruffs 
and Eeeves feeding : they were rather shy but I managed 
to bag one and found the carcase good eating after I had 
skinned the bird for my collection . These birds were on 
migration and I have not met them before in the district. 
On the same ground were a couple of Snipe, a few Ijap- 
wings, and several Red-wattled Lapwings (Sarcof/ram'mvs 
indicus) ; as well as one or two of those lovely birds, the 
Yellow-headed Wagtail (Motacilla citreola). This Wagtail 
is essentially a marsh bird, and is found commonly where- 
ever a pond or stream is bordered with rushes or grass ; 
it is also found feeding on grass-lands by the rivers'banks . 
This race, as well as Hodgson's Yellow -headed Wagtail {M . 
cUreoloidcs), is in these parts a spring visitor only, occur- 
ring commonly in March, April, and May, I can imagine 
no more charming birds for anyone with a large well- 
watered aviary, but there would probably be some dilMculty 
in securing live birds, 
