Contents

Vol. 6 No. 6

Date of publication: 24 December 2010

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

Odd W. Jacobsen

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

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