THE YELLOW-BROWED WILLOW WREN. 
(PHYLLOSCOPUS SUPERCILIOSUS.) 
Admitted to the B.O.U. List. 
Admitted by Newton. 
Admitted by Seebohm. 
Professor Newton gives the very interesting account of 
the energy shown by Mr. W. E. Brooks in undertaking 
a visit to Cashmere to procure the nest, and eggs of this 
little bird. 
Two of these eggs which I have received from Mr. 
H. E. Dresser; and which were taken at Gulmerg, May 
31, 1871, may be described as rather smaller than the 
Willow Wren, and having spots nearly as deep in tint as 
the Chiff Chaff. 
Mr. Seebohm took a nest of this bird in 1877, at 
nearly the same longitude, but at a latitude more than 
2000 miles north. Mr. Seebohm considers these birds 
breeding in such different latitudes as allied species. 
The Southern bird however seems to have chosen a 
somewhat Arctic nursery ; for Gulmerg is described as 
‘(a tract of extensive pasture land more than 8000 feet ~ 
above the sea level, surrounded by pine clad slopes, on 
one side of which rise snowy mountains.” 
Does it happen that individuals of some species 
which, as a rule, migrate north to breed, remaining in 
their winter quarters, mest at high altitudes when their 
time comes ? 
Mr. Dresser writes to me “as regards the so called 
variety, ‘ Phylloscopus humet, I cannot, after a careful 
examination of a series, endorse the view that it differs 
Srom the Northérn form, and hold thatit is true ‘ Phyllos- 
copus Superciliosus. 
