258 SYLVIIDJE.

form and a pale greenish white, thickly spotted in a broad zone
near the thicker end and smeared with very pale brown, or else
spotted and smeared with olive-brown over the whole of the thicker
end.33

The eggs are somewhat broad ovals, typically a good deal pointed
towards the lesser end. They vary, however, much both in size
and shape: some are short and broad, decidedly pointed at the small
end ; others are more elongated, and some are almost regular ellip-
soids. The eggs have little or no gloss; the ground-colour is
white, with a more or less perceptible though very faint greenish
tinge. Typically they are very Shrike-like in their markings, the
majority of these being gathered together in a more or less dense
zone near the large end. The markings consist of small spots,
blotches, and specks of pale yellowish brown, more or less inter-
mingled with spots and specks of dull inky purple or grey; in
many eggs there are very few markings, and these are mere spots
except in the zone, while in others full-sized markings are scattered,
though thinly, more or less over the whole surf ace of the egg. In
some the zone is confluent and blurred; in others composed of
small sharply defined specks and spots. Here and there a pretty
large yellowish-brown cloud may be met with partially or entirely
bounded by a narrow hair-like black line. Tiny black specks now
and then occur, and little zigzag lines that might have been bor-
rowed from a Bunting's egg; but these are not met with in probably
more than one out of ten eggs.

In length the eggs vary from 0*6 to 0*75, and in breadth from
0448 to 0-55; but the average of sixteen eggs is 0*66 by O5.

406, Phylloscopus tytleri, Brooks. Tytlers Willow- Warbler.

Phylloscopus tytleri, £ rooks, Hume, Rough Draft N. $ JE. no. 560
bis.

Tytler's Willow-Warbler, as yet a rare bird in collections, and
which appears only to straggle down to the plains of Upper India
during the cold season, was found by Captain Cock breeding at
Sonamerg (9400 feet elevation) in the Sindh Valley, Cashmere, in
June.

Mr. Brooks, who discriminated the bird, said of it and its nidifi-
cation :—" In plumage resembling P. viridanus, but of a richer and
deeper olive ; it is entirely without the ' whitish wing-bar/ which
is always present in viridanus, unless in very abraded plumage.
The wing is shorter, so is the tail; but the great difference is in
the bih1, which is much longer, darker, and of a more pointed and
slender form in P. tytleri. The song and notes are utterly differ-
ent, so are the localities frequented. P. vindanus is an inhabitant
of brushwood ravines, at 9000 and 10,000 feet elevation; while
P. tytleri is exclusively a pine-forest Pliylloscopus. In the places
frequented by P. viridanus, it must build on the ground, or very
near it; but our new species builds, 40 feet up a pine-tree, a compact
half-domed nest on the side of a branch.