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[edging safo arrival, but stating that one escaped almost immediately. 
Recrntly 1 liarc heard that il came back into the garden and was 
caught aflci being at liberty nearly five months. It was looking quite 
trim and plump, having apparently fared well on (ho wild seeds, etc., it 
had been able to pick up. 
Armly, Leeds, 16/1/'14. I?. E. SIMPSOX. 
MOTHS AT IVY BLOSSOM . 
Sir, — Those of your rfaoers mLo arc not cnioninlogisls may L>o 
glad to kno" that at Ifiis lime of year, mid-October, a plentiful supplji' 
of thick-bodied moths may be found soon after dark sitting on ivy 
bloom, imbibing the nectar which it contains. There are many .sorts 
of cultivated ivy — I have a small variegated kind, which flowers at the end 
of August, but the common green large-leaved sort (Hrdrm Iii'li:v\ 
which is in flower more or less from late September till mid -November, 
is especially attractive to Lepidopterous in?:ecta, which, after Ibcy havb 
settled on the tlowcrs for a short time, feel so " comfortable " that 
they may easily be taken with the fingers and transferred to a 'box . A- 
mong the sorts that occur, four may he found most commonly, as the 
caterpillars of the three first feed on oak, and those of the last on 
hawthorn, so that they abound almost everywhere. These four are Tho 
Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii), The Dark Chestnut (Conislra lijida), tho 
Satellite {Eiipsllia satcllitia ), and the Green-brindled Crescent {Mcfja- 
ncphria oxayaranthac) . Inscctivorou-s bird's gr. ally appreciate these deli- 
cacies, whicli may he found up till the middle of November. 
G. H. RAYNOR. 
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Birds of the Jhelum District and an Ornithol- 
ogical Diary from the Punjab. 
By H. Whistlbk, I.P., M.B.O.U. 
JULY. 
July 2. — Noted a Common Mynah {Acridothcrcs tristifi) which had its 
head and ne(,'k plucked comp!<'tely bare ; neither its spirits 
or its health, however, seemed at all affected. 
July 3.- — Four newlj' hatched j'oung in the nest of a King Crow 
(Dicrnrus attr) by my house. The first young bird left 
the nest on the 2(Jth, being followed next day by the others. 
A pair of Red-headed Merlins (Msalon chicqmra) noted 
Pied Crested Cuckoo (Cocc</s<''s ^acoiimw-s) hca-d calling. 
July 4. — Three fresh eggs in a nest of the Large Grey Babbler (Argya 
malcolin) built about ten feet from the grtiund in a 
bough of a small Shisham tree by my house. The nest 
was a slight but well made structure consisting of a neat 
cup of fine roots and a few horse hairs, placed in an outer 
covering of thorny twigs, the latter being necessarily rather 
