Birds of iJic Jhclam District. 
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A Kosli'L'l, Jjiigger Falron, :iud two Striated Swallows 
(sjK'cio's ) seen . 
Maicl; 7.- Hctiiruud to Uuiuiiiaii. TIr' conimou W'ooiljjcokcr of tlicso 
parts is the Siiulli I'IimI W'oodpecki'r {I )(i/(lrocopi(.'i shidli- 
idiiK.s) which to the casual observer would seem very- 
like our English Greater Spotted Woodpecker. It is interest- 
ing to note that the Salt Range which divides the district 
roughl}- into two parts — the high Chakwal plateau about 
1,5UU I'eet above sea level, and the lower Jhelum plains 
7()()-yU() feet in elevation — forms the border between t\To 
common species of ^^'oodpecker ; the Sindh Pied Wood- 
pecker occurring in the Salt Eange and the Chakwal area, 
and the Golden-backed ^^'oodpecke^ {BrachijpUrnns aiiran- 
lii(s I occurring on the low ground; this being its extreme 
limit for the noith-weslern Punjab. 
Maicli 8. — Dummun. ^^■hilc returning from visiting the scene of a 
dacoity. I saw a dark lump high up ou a sandstone cliff 
by a nairow stream bed that I was approaching. Think- 
ing it might possibly prove to be a nest I kept my eye 
on it, and sure enough when I approached fairly close a 
IJaven slipped off and flew up to settle on the top of the 
cliff. This made me turn out of the path to examine the 
place more closely and it then became clear that the lump 
indeed was a nest. The site was on the face of the cliff 
near the top, but the only method of approach without 
ropes was certainly from the base. The man with me, an 
active Masalli, said he was willing to essay the climb, and 
he scaled half the distance easily enough up the fallen 
debris at the foot of the cliff. The first Raven had dis- 
appeared, and as the man had started to elimb a second 
Raven had left the nest and settled on a rock near by, 
where it was croaking and puffing up its feathers in a 
most amusing way. 
When the man reached the difficult part of tlie climb, 
where foothold had to be cleared on lumps and ledges of 
the soft sandstone, both Ravens (the first had returned) 
seemed to consider that the matter was becoming serious, 
and started flying about, croaking and making most real- 
istic stoops which caused the man to duck and try to scare 
them off ; indeed had they gone for him in earnest it would 
have been a serious matter, as his foothold was precari- 
ous, and I was some small distance away with a couple 
of fidgetty horses . 
However, the Ravens soon retired to a rock at the 
top of a cliff on the other side of the stream and stayed 
there, discussing the situation, until the downward climb 
had commenced. The last portion of the climb was very 
difficult, but the man reached the nest and shouted that 
