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Recent Ornithological Literature from South Asia and Tibet Aasheesh Pittie 8-2-545 Road No 7, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, India Indian Birds Vol. 2 No. 2 (March-April 2006) 39 woodpecker, a mere 13 cm from beak to tail, It was time for the last walk of the day, Once the railway track to Simla was couldn’t be expected to hammer any louder. this time ostensibly to work up a thirst for a commissioned, in 1903, Subathu slipped into I was looking into the sun and it was difficult sun-downer! Descending through freshly one hundred years of solitude. But that most to tell whether it was the Brown-capped ploughed, terraced fields, we put up clouds imposing colonial mansion, Kennedy Dendrocopos nanus or Grey-capped D. of sparrow-sized birds. The first impression House, was retained in its pristine dignity. canicapillus. For the Brown-capped, at was of an exclusive congregation of female Today it serves as the Garrison Officers’ about 1,067 m, this may well be an altitudinal House Sparrows Passer domesticus. That Mess and the trees around it are full of avian record. was untenable, of course. Closer comings and goings the year long. To work up an appetite for lunch, we observation revealed the birds to be On the drive back to Chandigarh we lost gained several other ridge tops, ultimately Hodgson’s Mountain-Finches Leucosticte count of the Streaked Laughingthrushes reaching a pine–covered open patch, at least nemoricola in flocks of upto a hundred. Trochalopteron [Garrulax] lineatus and the 457 m above Subathu. By now the sun was With that, the tally of my lifetime’s first Blue Whistling-Thrushes that crossed our fairly hot and a few Common Kestrels Falco encounters, in the past 24 hour period, path. Stopping at a way-side eatery for a tinnunculus were floating on thermals, no stood at an incredible six. Of course, cup of coffee, we saw on the facing hill slope doubt looking for food. But some Eurasian altogether we had seen more than thirty one Great Tit, a pair of Indian Robins Griffons Gyps fulvus seemed to be riding species and heard an equal number in less Saxicoloides fulicata and several Common the thermals for the sheer joy of it. As we than two days. So Subathu is definitely an Mynas Acridotheres tristis in a tight knot settled to a sandwich–black coffee lunch, I attractive destination for serious bird on the ground, locked in mortal combat. noticed a bird hawking insects with short watching. What more could one ask of life, when you sallies into the air. It resembled the male Almost all Army Cantonments of Subathu have an abundance of such innocent Oriental Magpie-Robin Copsychus saularis vintage are steeped in the history of the pleasures! and so I took no further notice. But when it Raj. When Simla became the summer capital, perched on a bush directly below us, the Governors’ Generals / Viceroys of India rode Reference bird revealed its powder-blue crown and up on horse-back and Subathu was the Singh, B. 2006. Can we augment the Important nape. This lifer was a male Blue-capped natural midway staging post. The garrison Bird Area concept in India? The role of large Redstart Phoenicurus caeruleocephalus. commandant’s residence, which Capt. P.C. landholdings outside Protected Areas. Indian That moment will also remain a lifetime’s Kennedy had constructed around 1820, Birds 2 (1): 18-20. regret, for not having carried a spare film- now inevitably became the great watering- roll. A moment later, a Great Barbet hole for Raj personalities on their annual Megalaima virens came and perched so altitudinal migration (!) and in the process close at eye–level that I could count its embalmed this quaint little cantonment with moustachial bristles! This was a lunch hour, the mystique, nostalgia, romance and truly of dreams. gossip of the Raj. Recent ornithological literature from South Asia and Tibet Aasheesh Pittie 8-2-545 Road No 7, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034, India. Email: [email protected] BOOKS South Asia. The Ripley guide. Field guide. Vol. Sandpiper survey draws a blank. http:// Chandan, P., A. Chatterjee, P. Gautam, C.M. 1. Washington, D.C. and Barcelona: www.birdlife.org/news/news/ 2005/02/spoon- Seth, J. Takpa, S.-u. Haq, P. Tashi & S. Vidya Smithsonian Institution and Lynx Edicions. billedsandpiper.html. Date accessed: 9 2005. Black-necked Crane - Status, breeding Rasmussen, P.C.J.C. Anderton 2005. 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