394 NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED ON THE NILGHIRIS 
560 dis.—Phylloscopus tytleri, Brooks. Brooks’ Tree 
Warbler. 
I obtained one specimen, a male, of this species at Ootaca- 
mund on the 10th of March 1881. This measured in the 
flesh :— 
Length, 4°7; expanse, .7°4; tail, 1:65; wing, 2°4; tarsus, 
0:7; bill from gape, 0°52; weight, 0°35 oz. 
I shot a second specimen at Ooty on the 22nd of January 
last. 
I also append the measurements, taken in the flesh, of seven 
specimens of this rare species which were collected at Simla 
and its immediate neighbourhood. All these specimens having 
been collected in September and October are in the bright 
autumnal plumage. ‘The specimen I obtained at Ootacamund is 
more like, though not quite so, dull coloured as the specimens 
collected from April to June in Cashmere. Of the Simla 
specimens, five are males, one a female, and one has not been 
sexed. 
The sexes do not apparently differ in size. 
My specimen from Ootacamund was most carefully compar- 
ed with our comparatively large series, both by Mr. Hume and 
myself, and there is no doubt whatever about the identifica- 
tion :— 
Length, 4:4 to 4:7; expanse, 6°65 to 7:3; tail, 1°45 to 
18; wing, 2°15 to 2°45; tarsus, 0:7 to 0:75 ; bill from gape, 
0°5 to 0°53; weight, 0:25 oz. 
The legs and feet vary ; they were dark greenish plumbeous, 
dingy green, yellowish grey, dark brownish green, and very dark 
plumbeous brown; upper mandible and apical half of lower 
mandible blackish brown; rest of bill and gape yellowish ; irides 
dark brown. 
561.—Phylloscopus affinis, Zick. Tickell’s Tree 
Warbler. 
From December to April this Warbler is very numerous on 
the plateau of the Nilghiris, and even on the slopes. It has 
all the habits of the other Phylloscopi, and it also has a pecu- 
liar habit that I have not noticed in any other species of the 
enus. 
: The land in the vicinity of Ootacamund, Coonoor, Kotagherry, 
&c., is cultivated in a very crude sort. of way by a tribe of 
hill people called Badagas, and in and about the cultivated 
land are patches of land lying fallow and sparsely cover- 
ed with brushwood. Parties of this Phylloscopus assemble 
together (I have seen twenty or thirty together), and feed 
