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are pure white, very thinly speckled with reddish and yellowish
brown, the markings being most numerous towards the large end,
and even there somewhat sparse and very minute. They measure
respectively 0-65 by 0-52, 0-65 by 0-51, and 0-62 by 0-51.

367. Acrocephalus agricola (Jerd.). The Paddy-field Heed-
Warbler.

Acrocephalus agricolus (Jerd.), Jerd. J5. Ind. ii, p. 156.
Calauicdyta agricola (Jerd.}, Hume, Rough Draft N. $ JS. no. 517.

The Paddy-field Reed-Warbler nests apparently occasionally in
May and Jane in the valleys of the Himalayas, the great majority
probably going further north-west to breed.

Very little is known about the matter. I have shot the birds
in the interior of the hills in May, but I have never seen a
nest.

Mr. Brooks, however, says:—"Near Shupyion (Cashmere) I
found a finished empty nest of this truly aquatic warbler in a
rose-bush which was intergrown with rank nettles. This was in
the roadside where there was a shallow stream of beautifully clear
water. On either side of the road were vast tracts of paddy
swamp, in which the natives were busily engaged planting the
young rice-plants. The nest strongly resembled that of Curruca
c/arrula. The male with his throat puffed out was singing on the
bush a loud vigorous pretty soug like a Lesser Whitethroat's, but
more varied. I shot the strange songster, on which the female
flew from the nest. This was the only pair of these interesting
birds that I met with. I think, therefore, that their breeding in
Cashmere is not a common occurrence."

This nest, now in my collection, was found on the 13th June,
at an elevation of about 5500 feet, in the Valley of Cashmere. It
is a deep, almost purse-like cup, very loosely and carelessly put
together, of moderately fine grass, in amongst which a quantity
of wool has been intermingled.

371. Trttmra thoracica (Blyth). The Spotted Bush-Warbler.

Dumeticola affinis (Hodys.), Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 158.
Dumeticola briumeipectiis, J3L} Hume, Itougli Draft N. fy JS.
no. 519 bis.

Mr. Hodgson gives a very careful figure of a female bird of this
species, together with its nest and egg, but he labels it underneath
affinis. As we know, he described affinis as having spots on the
breast; but he further notes that at the same place at which he
obtained the female, nest, and eggs, he also got a male bird with
spots on the breast; in fact, in other words, he seems to have come
to the conclusion that Dumeticola affinis was the male and that
Dumeticola brunneipectus, which he did not separately name, though
he has beautifully figured it, was the female. I have specimens of