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young ones. This nest was placed in an unusually steep bank. 

 Half an hour after finding the nest, and perhaps a thousand feet 

 lower down the hill, I stood upon a mass of snow which had 

 accumulated in the bed of a mountain-stream. 



I must now say a few words about the nesting of Reguloides 

 proregulus. As far as I myself aui concerned, I was completely 

 foiled and never obtained a single nest. I looked only on the 

 ground, expecting to find its nesting-habits similar to those of 

 Reguloides super ciliosus, whereas Reguloides proregulus builds in 

 fir trees ; and in this habit it appears to be allied to the true 

 Reguli. Capt. Cock writes from Sonamerg, "The second day 

 I found my first nest with eggs. It was the nest of R. prore- 

 gulus. I shot the old bird. Three eggs. These nests are 

 often placed on a bough high up in a pine tree, and are domed 

 or roofed, made of moss, and lined with feathers, I took 

 another one to-day with five eggs, and shot the bird just as it 

 was entering the nest. This was on the bough of a pine, but 

 low down. I know of two more nests of R. proregulus, all on 

 pine trees, from which I hope to take eggs." 



After describing the nest of R. superciliosus before quoted, 

 and saying that it was lined with the hair of the musk-deer, he 

 adds, " In this the nest difi'ers from that of R. proregulus, which 

 lines its nest with feathers and bits of thin birch bark ; and the 

 nest of R. proregulus is only partly domed." 



I measured four eggs of R. proregulus which Capt. Cock 

 kindly gave me ; and the dimensions are as follows : — "55 x "44, 

 •53 X -43, -53 X -43, and '54 x -43. They are pure white, richly 

 marked with dark brownish red, particularly at the larger end, 

 forming there a fine zone on most of the eggs. Intermingled 

 with these spots, and especially on the zone, are some spots and 

 blotches of deep purple grey. The egg is very handsome, and 

 reminds one strongly of those of Parus aistatus on a smaller 

 scale. The dates when the eggs were taken are 30th of May 

 and 2nd of June, and the place Sonamerg, which is four marches 

 up the valley of the Scind river. 



Reguloides occipitalis. — This is perhaps the most abundant 

 bird in Cashmere wherever there are good woods. It is found 

 at almost all elevations above the Cashmere plain. I only took 



