370 Lieut. W. W. Cordeaux on Birds 



The White -breasted Dipper (C. cashmiriensis) is common 

 up the Scinde Valley. 



13. RUTICILLA FULIGINOSA. 



This bird is common on all the mountain-streams up to 

 about 10_,000 feet. The young in the first year are coloured 

 like the female. So difLcrent are the two sexes that one 

 would almost think they were of different species. A pair 

 brought off a brood in a stream near my tent, the dark male 

 bird looking strange and out of place amongst his light- 

 coloured progeny. 



14. Cyanecula suecica. 



I took a nest of this bird on the marsh at Doonaraj near 

 the great Sum glacier, height about 11,500 feet. The nest 

 was placed on the ground beneath a low bush, and strongly 

 made of grass, twigs, and moss, lined with horsehair ; eggs 

 four, hedge-sparrow blue"^. 



15. Phylloscopus, sp. inc. 



Took the nest and shot the female near Sonko; am some- 

 what doubtful as to the identity of this birdf. 



16. BUDYTES CITREOLA. 



I found a nest with young in a marsh at Doonara on July 

 1 2th. My wife and I watched the old birds feeding the young 

 for some time. The nest was made in a depression of the 

 ground, quite in the open. Young birds lark- olive-green, 

 with greenish-yellow spots, distributed similarly to those on 

 a young Robin. 



17. Pica rustica. 



I saw a pair at Metayan, the first village on the Ladakh side 



that he is doubtful as to the identity, and Mr. Dresser, who has seen tlie 

 skin, says, "I believe it to be the young of the bird I showed you, which 

 the Russians miscall C. sordidus, but not having a young example of that 

 species, I cannot be quite certain." — J. C] 



* [There must be some mistake here, for the eggs sent home are 

 certainly, not those of C. suecica. The skin sent at the same time was, 

 liowever, that of a fine male of this species. — J. C] 



t [This specimen was sent in spirit to Professor Newton for identifi- 

 cation, but was unfortunately lost in transit. — J. C] 



