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Birds of the Jhelum District. 
as it came readily to the hand or lure, but it was very weak 
and Ihin and incdiiied to "scream.'' The usual quarry for 
which the Saker is trained is the PJ(iiiliar:i liusianl or lh' 
Hare, while oicasional ones are flown at Kites. This in- 
dividual bird is figured on the accompanying plate. 
A fine old white male Paradise Flycatcher [Tihilnri 
piinuiisi ) no'.ed in the garden for the fiist time this year; 
I tie spcei( s is proj)erly a spring and autumn passage mi- 
grant, an odd pair or two only remaining to nest in the 
Eak. In the Salt Range, however, it breeds freely in 
famous gardens of Chua Saidan Shah. 
There are at present a number of Tree Pipits (An- 
thus trivialis) and Rcse-finches (Carpodacus rrylhrinus) 
about, passing through on migration . 
Many Swallows (Hirvndo ruslica) and Sand Martins 
{('olile riparia diluta) flying over the corn fields in the 
evening. 
A Teal, a White Stork (Ciconia alba) and a small 
party of Wood Sandpipers {Totanus glarcola) noted. 
A[]ril lU. — The first Golden Oriole (Oriolns kundoo) of the season. 
Spent the day on the river which was greatly swollen, 
though the recent floods had subsided, leaving, liowever, 
their mark in the shape of changes in the islands and sand- 
banks ; all the nesting colonies of Terns and Pratincoles 
have been washed away, and most of the birds themselves 
seem to have departed temporarily in disgust. However, 
on a high -lying patch of sand mostly covered with stones, 
which had escaped the general inundation, I met with a 
pair of Great Stone Plovers {Esncvs rccurvirostris) and 
made sure from the way they watched me that they had 
eggs. One bird had run off the patch of sand as I ap- 
proached it, but the number of stones and the state of the 
sand did not allow me to carry back her tracks . As the 
patch was not very large I started to search at random, 
and had covered most of the ground when I noticed near 
one side that there were many of the bird's footprints on 
the sand between the stones. Remembering that the im- 
mediate neighbourhood of nests of this species is often 
rather trampled I looked carefully and soon saw the nest. 
Two eggs were lying in a shallow hollow scraped in the 
sand \ they were placed slightly apart with their longer 
axes parallel, but they were pointing different ways. No 
material of any kind was placed in the nest hollow. 
The Ducks, Geese, and Ruddy Sheldrakes had prac- 
tically all gone — only two or three small parties of dufk 
were seen, amounting in all to about twenty individuals ; 
these probably included Gadwall and Shovellers. 
Waders were also scarce — only three or four Common 
