SUPPLEMENT. 655 
ACROCEPHALUS BISTRIGICEPS, Swinhoe. 
§ 6036. One.—Dauuria. From Dr. Taczanowski, 1889. 
Sent, under the synonym of Calamoherpe maacki, and said to be truly the 
ege of that bird. (Cf. Faune Orn. Sib. Orient. i. pp. 237, 258.) 
CaLaMopus aquaticus. (Vol. I. p. 325.) 
§ 6037. One.—Schwerin, “v. Pr.’ From Herr von Preen, through 
Herr W. Schliter, 1888. 
Syivia RuFA. (Vol. I, p. 339.) 
§ 6038. One —Altai. From Herr W. Schliter, 1888. 
Sent as S. fuscipilea, Severtzoff, which Mr. Dresser (Man. Pal. B. p. 75) considers 
to be “not even subspecifically distinct ” from our common Greater Whitethroat. 
Sytvia suBaLPINa. (Vol. I. p. 342.) 
§ 6039. One.-—Mount Parnassus, 20 May, 1887. “Kr.” From 
Dr. Kriper, through Herr W. Schliiter, 1888. 
PHYLLOSCOPUS SUPERCILIOSUS (Gmelin). 
pe UH Mico a iti ee Cashmere. From Mr. W. E. Brooks, 
6 6041. One—-4 dune,.1871 through Mr. John Hancock. 
These were from a considerable number of specimens received direct from 
Mr. Brooks by Mr. Hancock, who informed me at the time that he felt pretty well 
satisfied about them. In the ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal’ for 1872 
(vol. xli, pt. 2, p. 81) Mr. Brooks wrote of this species, under its synonym of 
Reguloides superciliosus :—“1Is very abundant in Cashmir, and I believe in all hills 
immediately below the snows. It would be vain to look for this bird at elevations 
below 8,000 feet, or at any distance from the snows. It was common even in the 
birch woods above the upper line of pines. I found many nests. It builds a 
globular nest of coarse grass on a bank side; always on the oeround and never 
up a tree, as stated by Mr. Hume's native informant. The nest is lined with hair 
in greater or lesser quantities. The eggs 4 or 5 number, average *56 by 44 inch ; 
are pure white, profusely spotted with red, and sometimes have also a few spots of 
purple-grey.” In ‘The Ibis’ for 1872 (pp. 26-29) Mr. Brooks gave a much fuller 
account of his experience in regard to the bird, describing more or less fully 
no fewer than ten of its nests seen by him; but some six years afterwards he came 
to the conclusion that the birds which he had thus found breeding were not the 
