Gwendolen (Wendy) Mary Beryl Sparks (1916–2007): a Gujarat sojourn in 1947–1948
Aasheesh Pittie

A checklist of birds of Pauri district, Uttarakhand, India
Archana Naithani & Dinesh Bhatt

Authorship of new names proposed in papers by Whistler Kinnear,
entitled ‘The Vernay Scientific Survey of the Eastern Ghats (Ornithological section)’, during 1930–1937
Aasheesh Pittie & Edward C. Dickinson

Marbled Teal Marmaronetta angustirostris, a rare winter visitor on the Pulicat Lake, Andhra Pradesh
B. M. Parasharya

An unusual nesting colony of Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo at Jamnagar, Gujarat
Maulik S. Varu & Vatsal Trivedi

Lesser Adjutant Stork and Stork-billed Kingfisher, additions to the birds of Kawal Wildlife Sanctuary, Andhra Pradesh
R. Sreekar, Ashwin Naidu, M. Seetharamaraju & C. Srinivasulu

Gleanings
Ragupathy Kannan

First confirmed record of Black Tern Chlidonias niger in Gujarat, India
Ketan Tatu

Predation of eggs and nestlings of pigeons (Columbidae) by the lion-tailed macaque Macaca silenus in the Western Ghats, India
Peroth Balakrishnan

Caspian Plover Charadrius asiaticus at Tal Chhappar: first record for Rajasthan
Harkirat Singh Sangha, Gaurav Bhatnagar & Surat Singh Poonia

Story of a bird book: Its journeys and owners
Lt General (Retd) Baljit Singh

Red-tailed Wheatear Oenanthe chrysopygia in Uttarakhand
Manoj Sharma & Deepak Chaturvedi

Great-tufted Myna Acridotheres grandis: new bird for West Bengal, India
Subhash Chanda

Sighting of Blue-throated Flycatcher Cyornis rubeculoides in Pune, India
Pallavi Ghaskadbi