200 SYLVIID^E. 



distinct from P. fuscdttis, struetui-aUy as woll as iu plumage 

 answering perfectly to Hodgson's description. 



I wrote to Dr. Jerdou mentioning this fact, and he replied : — " I 

 also am not satisfied of the identity of this species (IT. fiih'iventris) 

 with PJu/Uosfopm fuscatus. I have recently got at Darjeeling what 

 I talve to be Horornis fulviventris, and it is somewliat smaller 

 in all its dimensions, but I had not a typical P. fascatus with which 

 to compare it. Specimens measured 4| to 4| inches ; expanse 6| 

 inches; wing 2 to 2 jL 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. /»sc«f»* (though possibly some specimens of 

 P. fuscatKS in the British Museum may bear a label formerly 

 attached to a bird of this species), nor any other Horornis or 

 Horeitcs 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 \\hich Dr. Jerdon found *. 



415. Phylloscopus proregiiliis (Pall.). Pallas's Willow-Warhler . 



Reguliiides cbloronotus (Hodys.), JeriJ. B. I. ii, p. 197. 



Reguloides proregiilus (Pull.), Hume, liuvr/h Draft N. ^' E. no. 5G6. 



Captain Cock has the honour of being the first to take, and, I 

 believe, up to date the onlij oologist \\\io has ever taken, the nest 

 and eggs of Pallas's AVillow-AVarbler. Mr. Brooks tried hard for 

 the prize, but he searched on the ground aud 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, \Ahen 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. sihiJatrix, alluded to by Blyth as being that of P. snjm-ciliosus, 

 is not that of this latter bird, but of P. prorejjulus." 



Later, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society, he noted that 

 '• Captain Cock took the nest aud eggs at Sonamerg. It builds, 

 like the Golden-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 Ahrornis chloronoiics, Hodgs., wliich appcurcxl in the 

 ' Hoiifjli Draft ' under number 574 bis. Tliere is no manner of duubt tlmt 

 Hodgson got the wrong nest, a nest of a Sunbird, and figured it as that of this 

 bird. — Ed. 



