30 On the Breeding of Reguloides and Phylloscopiis. 



three nests, as the little bird is very cunuing^uulike the simple i?^- 

 gidoides superciliosus. It is very careful indeed how it approaches 

 its nest when an enemy is near. The nest is placed in a hole 

 under the roots of a large tree on some steep bank-side. I 

 found one in a decayed stump of a large fir tree, inside the 

 rotten wood. It was placed on a level with the ground, and 

 could not be seen till I had broken away part of the outside of 

 the stump. It was composed of green moss and small dead 

 leaves, a scanty and loosely formed nest, and not domed. It 

 was lined with fine grass and a little wool, and also a very few 

 hairs. There were five eggs. 



Another nest was also placed in a rotten stump, but under 

 the roots, A third nest was placed in a hole under the roots 

 of a large living pine ; and in front of the hole grew a small 

 rose-bush quite against the tree-trunk. This nest was most 

 carefully concealed ; for the hole behind the roots of the rose- 

 bush was most difficult to find. 



The eggs are of a rather longer form than those of the 

 Reguloides before described, and are pure white without any 

 spots. They average '65 by "5. 



Of PhyUoscopus tytleri, which I have described in a sepa- 

 rate paper, I have to remark that among my Etawah-killed 

 specimens of P. viridanus, and others shot at Almorah in 

 1868, I have found two specim.ens of this new bird. Capt. 

 Cock shot one of this species off the nest at Sonamerg with 

 four eggs. The bird he sent to me, and gave me two of the 

 eggs. Regarding the nest, he says, " I took a nest, con- 

 taining four eggs, about forty feet up a pine, on the outer end 

 of a bough, 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 Capt. Cock he afterwards told me that he had watched the 

 bird building its nest. It was placed rather on the side of the 

 branch ; and its solid formation reminded him of a Goldfinch's 

 nest. It was composed of grass, fibres, moss, and lichens ex- 

 ternally, and thickly lined with hair and feathers. The eggs 

 were pure unspotted white, rather smaller than those of R. oc- 



