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forest was dense and the vegetation was draped with moss. No attempt had 

 apparently been made at concealment, but the nest might easily have passed for 

 one of the numerous similar lumps of moss sticking in the shrubs and branches 

 of the trees. * 



I disturbed the bird from her nest at 5 p.m., and she returned in 20 minutes. 

 The nest contained 2 freJi eggs. 



It is neatly but rather flimsily built of moss ; inside there is a layer of fine 

 roots and lastly a scanty lining of feathers. 



The eggs are long ovals, with little gloss, of an almost uniform dark terra- 

 cotta or dull chestnut colour, duller and less uniform than the eggs of a 

 Prinia, and with a very faint cap of mottlings of a darker shade at the 

 larger end. 



They measure '73" x "52" each. 



357. — Pncepyga pusilla. — This is the common wren of the temperate hill 

 forests in these parts. Its usual note is a monosyllabic, shrill whistle which is 

 repeated at regular intervals. This note is alternately higher and lower, with 

 a semitone difference between the two. 



I found 8 nests of this species all placed up against the vertical face of a 

 moss-covered rock or tree. They were all exactly similar to the first type of 

 nest described by Mr. Stuart Baker in the Ibis, 1896, page 322, but were never 

 more than 3 or 4 feet from the ground and the maximum number of eggs in 

 any nest was 3, whereas some nests contained only 2 incubated eggs. 



The measurements of 10 eggs gave a mean of *77" x "5G". 



433. Crptolopha burkli. — This species is the commonest of its genus in these 

 parts, taking the place of C. xanthoscldsta which is so common in the N.-W. 

 Himalaya. 



I found two nests on the 7th July containing, respectively, 3 and 4 fresh eggs. 

 They were built on a steep bank at 6,500 feet in a rather open piece of forest 

 where fellings had just been carried out. The nests are globular in shape, 

 4t" in diameter, with an entrance hole 2"x 1" (twice as wide as high). They are 

 composed externally of dry leaves, grass and moss, arched above chiefly with fine 

 dark rootlets, and the egg cavity is lined with a thick layer of dense soft green 

 moss. The eggs are, of course, pure white with slight gloss, and the mean of the 

 measurements of 7 eggs gave •61"x*47". 



444. Tickellia hodgsoni.— This small warbler is found, but is not common, 

 between 6,000 feet and 8,000 feet throughout the year. Its note is a single, 

 long-lrawn, very shrill whistle, followed after an interval of 10 seconds or so by 

 two notes, the second of which is the lower of the two. 



The nest of this bird has, I believe, never been described. 



I came across one on the 6th June in a thicket of saplings in a lofty forest at 

 about 6,800 feet. 



The nest was placed in a fork at the top of a symplocos sapling, 7 feet from 

 the ground. It is roughly egg-shaped with a hole Ik" in diameter near the top, 

 and measures 6" in he'ght by 3" in width. It is composed entirely of dry 



