PHYLLOSCOPUS. 259

" Captain Cock shot one of this species off the nest at Sonamerg
with four eggs. The bird he sent to me, and gave me two oE the
eggs. Eegarding the nest he says : ' I took a nest, containing four
eggs, about 40 feet up a pine, on the outer end of a bough, by means
of ropes and sticks, and I shot the female bird. I do not know
what the bird is. I thought it was P. viridanus, but I send it to
you. The nest was very deep, solidly built, and cup-shaped.
Eggs, plain white.3 In conversation with Captain Cock he after-
wards told me that he had watched the bird building its nest. It
was rather on the side of the branch, and its solid formation re-
minded him of a Goldfinch's nest. It was composed of grass, fibres,
moss, and lichens externally and thickly lined with hair and feathers.
The eggs were pure unspotted white, rather smaller than those of
Reguloides occipitdlis. Two of them measured -58 by *48 and -57
by '45. They were taken on the 4th June."

Captain Cock himself writes to me:—"Of all the birds'nests
•that I know of, this is one of the most difficult to find. One day
in the forest at Sonamerg, Cashmere, I noticed a Warbler fly into a
high pine with a feather in its bill. I watched with the glasses
and saw that it was constructing a nest, so allowing a reasonable
time to elapse (nine days or so) I went and took the nest. It was
placed on the outer end of a bough, about 40 feet up a high pine,
and I had to take the nest by means of a spar lashed at right
angles to the tree, the outer extremity of which was supported by a
rope fastened to the top of the pine. The nest was a very solid,
deep cup, of grass, fibres, and lichens externally, and lined with hair
and feathers. It contained four white eggs, measuring 0'5S by
0-48.

" I shot the female, which I sent to Mr. Brooks for identification.

" I forgot to add that this nest, the only one I ever found, was
taken early in June."

The egg of this species closely resembles that of some of the
species of Alrornis—a moderately broad oval, slightly pointed at
the small end, pure white, and almost glossless. The only specimen
I have seen measures 0*58 by 0*45.

410. Phylloscopus fuscatus (Blyth). The Duslcy Willow-Warbler.

Phylloscopus fuscatus (JSlyth), Jcrcl J5.1. ii, p. 191.

Horornis fulviv enter, Hodgs., Hume, Rough Draft N. 8f JE. no. 523.

Mr. Blyth long ago stated in ' The Ibis' that Horornis fulviventris
was identical with P. fuscatus *.
Subsequently I procured several specimens which were quite

* It is with considerable hesitation that I reproduce this note. Horornis
fulviventris with which Jerdon identified the bird, the nest of which he de-
scribes, is certainly P. fuscatus. The only doubt I haye is whether Jerdon, who
apparently had not seen a specimen of H. fulviventris, rightly identified his bird
with it. With this explanation the note is re-published as it appeared in the
* Rough Draft.1—ED.

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