Contents

Vol. 2 No. 5
Date of publication: 8 December 2006

Preferential routes of bird dispersal to the Western Ghats in India: An explanation for the avifaunal peculiarities of the Biligirirangan Hills
Umesh Srinivasan & Prashanth N. S.

Arunachal Pradesh, India: an ornithological diary from December 2005
Rishad Naoroji & Harkirat Singh Sangha

The dates of six taxa described by A.O. Hume (Puffinus persicus, Ephialtes brucei and Ninox obscurus) and W.E. Brooks (Cyornis poliogenys, Phylloscopus sindianus and Calandrella tibetana)
Aasheesh Pittie

Eggs
Michael Walters

Do Great Cormorants Phalacrocorax carbo displace other colonial nesting waterbirds at Kumarakom heronry (Kerala)?
S. Prasanth Narayanan, David V. Raju, N. Unnikrishnan, Saju Vasan & B. Sreekumar

Food-sharing among passerines at Lava, eastern Himalaya
Ranajit Mitra, Dulal Chandra Pal & Arjan Basuroy

Sighting of Green-billed Malkoha Phaenicophaeus tristis along Alaknanda River, Uttaranchal, India
Vidyadhar Atkore & Tamo Dadda

The fate of a small population of Indian White-backed Vultures Gyps bengalensis in Vadodara (Gujarat, India)
Raju Vyas

A visit to Nandi Hills, Karnataka, India
Nick Lethaby

Recoveries from the Newsletter for Birdwatchers (1967)-14
Zafar Futehally

Correspondence