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and bits of down were still adhering to its plumage. It 

 would therefore appear that the Wall-Creeper nests within 

 Indian limits. "When touring through the Kaglian Valley, 

 Hazara District, this year (10th of July, 1908) my shikari 

 minutely described to me a bird that he had seen that day, 

 which could scarcely be anything else but a Wall-Creeper. 



Mr. S. L. Whymper also informed me in a letter (I have 

 not got this by me, but, so far as I remember, it was to the 

 following effect) that a friend of his had actually found a 

 Wall-Creeper nesting somewhere on the North- West Frontier, 

 but had been unable to get at the nest. 



Anorthura magratht. Whitehead's Wren. 

 Whitehead, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 19 (1908). 



343. S . Safed Koh, 12,500 ft., Gth August. 



344. ? Safed Koh, 8500 ft., 8th August. 



Bill blackish, base and gape yellow ; tarsus brownish 

 flesh-coloured ; iris brow'n. 



This appears to be a well-marked race of A. neglecta, 

 differing from it in being almost uniform in colouring above, 

 the barring being scarcely perceptible, and in having the 

 throat ashy grey. In summer it is found fairly commonly 

 on the Safed Koh, from 8000 feet upwards, chiefly in the 

 juniper-scrub. I have met with it on the very summit of 

 the range, picking about amongst the rocks. 



In habits and song it closely resembles A. parvula. 



[358.] Regulus cristatus. The Goldcrest. 



Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. Ill, and xviii. p. 461 (not 

 common ; eggs taken in May, June, and July in the Liddar 

 Valley, Kashmir). 



Fairly numerous in summer amongst the firs and deodars 

 of the Safed Koh from 8000 to 11,000 feet. 



[359.] Aedon FAMiLiARis. The Grey-backed Warbler. 



Eattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. pp. 2.25, 339, & 579 (fairly 

 common at Thall ; found several nests) ; Watson, op. cit. 

 XV. p. 144 (occurs at Chamau, near Quetta, in August and 



