496 NOTES. 
The call note of our species is peculiarly shrill, tinkling ; 
weak, but quite Phylloscopine ; a “ tiss-yip,” as expressed by 
Mr. Blyth. There is a greater rise between the lst and 2nd 
notes of the call (the 2nd being the highest,) than there is in the 
call note of Reguloides superciliosus or of Phyllopneuste trochi- 
lus. 
The song, which I have sometimes heard on their arrival, is a 
pleasant twittering but feeble one, and very like that of Regu- 
lus cristatus. I have procured Reguloides subviridis in the 
Etawah and Cawnpore districts, but I have no doubt it is ge- 
nerally spread over the whole North-West. In Kashmir I 
never met with it, although 2. proregulus and R. superctliosus 
were abundant there. 
It arrives in the plains about a month later than R. superci- 
liosus, and while that species loves large and shady trees, our 
one seems to prefer those of light foliage, especially the Babool. 
With one or two exceptions, all my specimens were procured in 
aBbool trees. The banks of the Etawah branch of the Ganges 
ucnal abound with these trees, and there this little bird is not 
encommon. It is not an abundant bird like Reguloides super- 
siliosus, but is comparatively scarce; and its peculiar and exces- 
cively shrill note enabled me to find the numbers I did. It only 
ealls occasionally, and is as silent a bird as R. superciliosus is 
noisy.—Pro. A. S. B., 1872, p. 148. 
dlotes. 
IN MY CONCLUDING note to Captain Butler’s paper on the 
Avifauna of Mount Aboo, &c., (see ante, page 40) 1 omitted to 
notice, as found along the coasts of Kutch and Kattiawar, No. 
862.—Hematopus ostralegus. 
Since this paper appeared I have received three specimens of 
888.—Calidris arenaria from Mr. James, shot by him at Man- 
davee in Kutch. I have also received a specimen of 956.— 
T. vulpanser shot by this same gentleman on the last day of 
1875, near Nowanuggur, Kattiawar. 
Captain E. Brsnor of the I. G. 8. 8. “ Amberwitch,” who re- 
cently sent me skins of Dromas ardeola from the Mekran Coast, 
informs me that in April last he saw flocks of this species as 
far north and west as Bushire, which is the nearest Persian port 
to Shiraz, and about 120 miles from the head of the Persian 
Gulf. He also mentions, a rather curious fact, that he has seen 
Mergus castor for three successive years at Chabour and Jask on 
the Mekran Coast. 
