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is so marked in the eggs of the Red-headed Tit. Some of the nests were from 

 28 to 30 feet up in trees. I secured several specimens of the birds, both 

 old and young. 



Anorthura nepalensis. — The Nepal Wren. 



I take this to be the species or rather race of Wren inhabiting those parts, as 

 although neither pale nor dark rufous it is decidedly inclined to dark and the 

 hind toe and claw is large, measuring *6 of an inch. Two nests were 

 found with eggs and three with young birds, all in crevices of birch trees, 

 from 20 to 30 feet up, a decidedly different situation to all the nests 

 of the Kashmir Wren I have seen or heard of. The nests were large and 

 domed, made of moss, grass and leaves and very thickly lined with feathers, 

 the eggs white with a few red specks. I was unfortunately unable to 

 preserve a specimen of this Wren, as all I secured were too much shattered 

 by shot, my collecting gun having struck work. 



Phylloscopus pulclier ; — The Orange-barred Willow- Warbler. 



Two nests only were found of this bird, with four and three fresh eggs on 

 June 23rd and 26th. They were very untidy round balls, made of old man's - 

 beard, moss and dry grass, and lined with feathers, some of which were left 

 sticking out of the entrance hole and were placed about ten feet up in the 

 forks of willows. The nests were so ragged that I was doubtful of their 

 being new, and no birds were about when first found ; however, I went after 

 some days a long distance to look them up again and was well rewarded, as I 

 do not think the nesting of P. pulclier has been recorded before. These 

 were the only birds of this species positively identified, but I am inclined to 

 think they were only just beginning to breed and probably more nests would 

 have been found later, but I had to leave on June 26th. The eggs are spotted 

 and do not differ much from those of Phylloscopus proregulus. 



Acanthopneuste plumbeitarsus. — Middendorfe's Willow-Warbler. 



Two nests only with the birds were secured and they have been identified 

 as the above by Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker. The bird is very like .4. viridanus- 

 but is slightly larger, and has traces of a second wing-bar even in the abraded 

 summer plumage. It builds a domed nest on the ground like viridanus, but in 

 slightly different situations, and the nest is not nearly so neatly made as that 

 of viridanus. The bird appears to be more of a tree haunter, flying straight 

 up from the nest into trees, whereas viridanus (of whose nests I saw at least 

 fifty) on leaving the nest always shot straight down along the ground into 

 bushes. The eggs in both the above nests were pure white, and it has occurred 

 to me that the cases previously reported of A. viridanus laying unspotted 

 white eggs may possibly be referable to plumbeitarsus , the two birds being very 

 much alike in the worn summer plumage. Acanthopneuste viridanus was 

 exceedingly common, and I saw over two hundred of its eggs, but never saw 

 an unspotted one. 



