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such steep rocky ground that they can only be reached with difficulty. The 
nest is a shallow cup composed of dry grass and lined with fine roots. The eggs 
are a rather pale blue and most of them have a few speckles of pinkish brown, 
though one egg in each of two clutches of four is quite unspotted. In one of the 
clutches the surface is rather glossy, but not in the other two. The average 
measurements in two clutches of four eggs each are 1:04” x +76” and 1:06” x 
*75” and a single egg measures 1:01” x +77”. 
Orecincla dauma (698).—The Small-billed Mountain-Thrush. 
On several occasions I have met with this bird during the months of April and 
May at elevations between 8,500’ and 9,500’ in the forests of central and upper 
Garhwal. On each occasion I flushed the bird off the ground in fairly dense 
forest of karshu (Quercus semecarpifolia) or silver fir. 
Oreocincla whiteheadi. 
This mountain-thrush is described by Stuart Baker in Bull. B. O. C. XXXI, 
p- 79 (1913) and two skins which I sent to the British Museum were identified 
there as belonging to this species. One of these birds was shot on 27th April 
at 8,000’ elevation about 5 miles below Badrinath on open rocky ground with 
scattered bushes growing here and there. It was accompanied by 3 or 4 others 
of the same species. The other bird was shot on 20th June at 12,800’ elevation 
near Kulara camping ground in Dasoli where the surroundings for some consider- 
able distance were open pasture land interspersed with rocky ground. This 
bird was an apparently solitary male. For this bird I noted ‘‘ Inside mouth 
yellow. Legs yellowish.” 
Zoothera monticola (704).—The Large Brown Thrush. 
I have seldom seen this bird and I think it must be a rather uncommon species 
in these hills. On 12th June I found a nest near Wan with fresh or nearly fresh 
eggs. It was placed about 15’ from the ground on the horizontal branch of a 
small walnut tree growing at the side of a large rocky stream with dense karshu 
(Quercus semecarpifolia) forest on all sides, the elevation being about 8,000’. 
The nest was a bulky structure and was composed of fresh damp green moss 
with a firm lining of roots, lichen and rhizomorphs. The eggs are a pale greenish 
mottled all over with reddish brown and very pale purple, and closely resemble 
a clutch I have of Merula boulboul. They average 1°26” x * 86’. 
Cinclus asiaticus (709).—The Brown Dipper. 
A common bird over the whole of the hilly portion of Garhwal. When I have 
been at high elevations I have usually made a point of examining any dipper I 
came across to see if it were C. kashmiriensis, a bird which I expected to find, 
but for which I have searched in vain; so that if it occurs in these parts it must, 
I think, be either rare or very local. 
Tharrhaleus strophiatus (718).—The Rufous-breasted Accentor. 
In the Girthi valley bordering Tibet which I have briefly described in a note 
above on Phylloscopus affinis I also met with this accentor and it is possible that 
it does not occur elsewhere in Garhwal. During the first week of August I found 
three nests from one of which the birds had already flown. In one of the others 
there were 3 deserted eggs, and in the third nest there was one single hard set 
egg ; probably a second nest. The nests were placed from 12” to 18” above the 
ground in low, rather dense, willow scrub (Salix sclerophylla). They were rather 
deep substantially built cups. On the outside were a few twigs or coarse herb- 
aceous stems, and this was followed by masses of green moss mixed with wool 
and hair (of the Marmot). Moss fructifications were conspicuous throughout 
the structure and especially in the interior, but I doubt if they are collected 
separately from the moss itself. All these nests were at 13,500’ elevation. The 
clutch of 3 eggs gave an average measurement of 81” x *57” and the single egg 
measured .75” x .55”. The only note I heard these birds utter was a rather 
high pitched “ tr-r-r ” somewhat resembling the noise produced by striking two 
stones together. 
