PHYLLOscoprg. 259 



" Captain Cock shot one of this species off the nest at. Sonamerg 

 w ith four eggs. The bird lie sent to uie, and gave me two of 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 bougli, 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.' 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 hchens extei'nally and thickly hued with hair and feathers. 

 The eggs were pure mispotted white, rather smaller than those of 

 lieijuJoides occipitalis. Two of them measured "58 by '48 and '57 

 by '45. They were taken on the 4th Jiuie." 



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 Hy 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"o8 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 Ahrornis — 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. Phylloscopiis fuscatus (Blyth). The D ashy Willow- Warbler. 



Phylloscopus fuscatus (Blyth), Jcrd. B. I. ii, p. 191. 



Horornis t'lilviventer, Hodys., Hume, Rough Draft N. 8f JS, uo. 523. 



Mr. Blyth long ago stated in '■ The Ihis' that Roroi'nisfulviuentris 

 was identical with P. fuscatus *. 



Subsequently I procured several specimens which were quite 



* It is witli considei'able hesitation that I reproduce this note. Horornis 

 fulvivenfris with which Jerdou identified the bird, the nest of which he de- 

 scribes, is certainly P.fuscafvs. The only doubt I have is whether Jerdon, who 

 apparently liadnot seen a specimen of H. fulviventrig, rightly identified his bird 

 with it. With this e.xplauation the note is republished as it appeared in the 

 ' Eoueh Draft.'— Ed. 



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