260 . SYLVIIDJE.

distinct from P. fuscatus, structurally as well as in plumage
answering perfectly to Hodgson's description.

I wrote to Dr. Jerdon mentioning this fact, and he replied :-—" I
also am not satisfied of the identity of this species (H. fulmventris)
with PTiylloscopus fuscatus. I have recently got at Darjeeling what
I take to be Horornis fulviventris, and it is somewhat smaller
in all its dimensions, but I had not a typical P. fuscatus with which
to compare it. Specimens measured 4| to 4g inches ; expanse 6J
inches ; wing 2 to 2^ inches. I procured the nest and eggs in
July; the nest, cup-shaped, on a bank, composed of grass chiefly,
with a few fibres ; and the eggs, three in number, pinky white,
with a few reddish spots."

It is certainly not P. fuscatus (though possibly some specimens of
P. fuscatus in the British Museum may bear a label formerly
attached to a bird of this species), nor any other Horornis or
Horeites included in Dr. Jerdon's work, all of which I have.
Mr. Blyth possibly went by Mr. Hodgson's specimens in the British
Museum, but some confusion has, it .is known, somehow crept in
amongst these ; and I have no doubt myself that Horornis fulvi-
ventris is a good species, and that it was the nest and eggs of this
species which Dr. Jerdon found *.

415. Phylloscopus proregulus (Pall.). Pallas's Willow-Warbler.

Keguloides chloronotus (Hodg&.\ Jercl B. I. ii, p. 197.

Reguloides proregulus (Pall.), Hume, Rough Draft N. fy JE. no. 566.

Captain Cock has the honour of being the first to take, and, I
believe, up to date the only oologist who has ever taken, the nest
and eggs of Pallas's Willow-Warbler. Mr. Brooks tried hard for
the prize, but he searched on the ground and so missed the nest.
He wrote to me from Cashmere, just about the time (June 1871)
that Captain Cock found the nest he obtained:—" I have been
utterly unable to do anything with P. proregulus. I shot a female,
with an egg nearly ready to lay, when I first went to Goolmerg,
but though I often heard the males singing, I never could find any
indication of the nesting female. The feeble song, like that of
P. sibilatrix, alluded to by Blyth as being that of P. superciliosus,
is not that of this latter bird, but of P. proregulus?

Later, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, he noted that
" Captain Cock took the nest and eggs at Sonamerg. It builds,
like the Grolden-crested Eegulus, up a fir-tree, at from 6 to 40 feet
elevation, on the outer ends of the branches. The nest is of moss,
wool and fibres, and profusely lined with feathers. Eggs, four or

* I omit the article on Abrornis chloronotus, Hodgs., which appeared in the
' Hough Draft' under number 574 bis. There is no manner of doubt that
Hodgson got the wrong nest, a nest of a Sunbird, and figured it as that of this
bird.—ED.