PALLASS WILLOW-WARBLER. 303 



hiveet^' Dr. Dybowski says that its note is melodious and 

 powerful, and its song varied and sweet, and so loud that it 

 rings through the forest, and is astonishing as coming from so 

 small a bird. 



Pallas's Willow-Warbler is chiefly an inhabitant of the pine 

 woods, and makes it nest on the branches of the smaller pines 

 and moss-covered cedars, near the stem. In Kashmir, Captain 

 Cock found the nest placed on the outer end of the branch of 

 a fir tree, from six to forty feet elevation, and sometimes on a 

 small sapling pine where the junction of the bough with the 

 stem takes place. 



Nest. — "The nest," says Captain Cock, "is partially domed, 

 the outer portion consisting of moss and lichen, so arranged as 

 to harmonise with the bough on which it is placed, and lined 

 with feathers and thin birch-bark strips, never with hair." 



Eggs. — Described by the above-named observer as being five 

 in number, pure white, richly marked with dark brownish- red, 

 particularly at the larger end, forming there a fine zone on most 

 of the eggs, and intermingled with these spots, and especially 

 on the zone, are some spots and blotches of deep purple-grey. 

 Axis, o-53-o'55 inch; diam., 0-43-0-44. 



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Range of the king-eider : — 



Mr. A. Trevor-Batty e has pointed out to me that, by a 



kipsus calami^ I have included Spitsbergen as one of its winter 



habitats. He says : — "As a fact this Duck has been many times 



recorded in the summer in Spitsbergen, while in the winter it 



obviously cannot be there, nor could it be recorded if it were." 



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With regard to the statement of the " Son of the Marshes," 

 that " when the young are alarmed, they scatter out," the most 

 interesting point in the nesting habits of yE. hiaticola is that 

 the parent bird itself, if suddenly disturbed, scatters the young 

 ones with its feet, no doubt for purposes of better conceal- 

 ment ; for the young, when so scattered, instantly squat down 



