208 MOTACILLTD^E. 



those which I have above described as typical, but which had the 

 ground-colour pale salmon-pink and the mottling a darker, slightly 

 brownish, salmon-colour. 



In length the eggs vary from 0-68 to 0*73, and in breadth from 

 0-53 to 0-55. 



Motacilla citreoloides (Hodgs). Hodgson s Yellow-headed 

 Wagtail. 



Budytes citreola (Pall], Jerd. B. 2nd. ii, p. 225. 



Budytes calcaratus, Hodgs., Hume, Rough Draft N. fy E. no. 594. 



Hodgson's Yellow-headed Wagtail, figured by Gould, breeds in 

 Cashmere, where it is excessively plentiful during the season, but 

 only one Indian oologist appears as yet to have taken its eggs. 



Mr. W. Theobald makes the following remarks on its nidification 

 in the Valley of Cashmere: "Lays in the third week of May; 

 eggs, four in number, ovato-pyriform ; size, O95 by 0*70 ; colour, 

 pale grey, thickly dotted and ringed with greenish-brown and 

 greyish-neutral mingled together ; a depression in soft earth 

 beneath a rock : valley generally.''* 



Anthus trivialis (Linn.). The Tree- Pipit. 



Pipastes arboreus (Bechst.), Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 229. 



Pipastes plumatus (Mull}, Hume, Rough Draft N. # E. DO. 597. 



A pair of Tree-Pipits, obviously breeding, were brought to me 

 in the flesh at Kotegurh on the 6th May, together with a nest con- 

 taining three fresh eggs. 



They were all alleged to have been procured two days previously 

 on the snowy hills north-east of Kotegurh and on the other side of 

 the Sutlej. 



The nest was nearly circular, a shallow saucer composed of grass 

 and lined with fine grass-stems and a little hair, and had been 

 placed on the ground at the foot of a tuft of grass. It was found 

 high up, close below the snow-line, while the men were shooting 

 Tetraogallus himalayanm. 



No one can rely upon what native huntsmen say, but the birds, 

 as dissection showed, were breeding, and I believe the eggs to be 

 genuine. 



They are very broad ovals, very slightly compressed towards one 

 end. The shell has but little gloss ; the ground-colour is greyish 

 white with a faint pinkish tinge, and the eggs are pretty thickly 

 speckled and spotted all over, and very densely so at the large end, 

 with dull purple and purplish brown. 



They vary from 0-83 to 0-86 in length, and from 0-59 to 0-67 

 in breadth. 



