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315. $ juv. Safed Koh, 15,000 ft., 12th July. 



A winter visitor to the District from October till mid-March ; common on 

 the Samana, but less so elsewhere. Generally found singly or in pairs about 

 cliffs, but occasionally some distance from rocks on earth-banks. 



An example shot on the 13th of March had the black feathers on the throat 

 and breast well developed. 



On the 12th of J uly, 1906, I came across a newly-fledged family at 15,000 

 feet on the Safed Koh, in the shale screes, and shot one specimen. The 

 wing-and tail-feathers were only partially grown, the bill was quite soft and 

 very short, and bits of down were still adhering to its plumage. It would there- 

 fore appear that the Wall-Creeper nests within Indian limits. When touring 

 through the Kaghan Valley, Hazara District, this year (10th of July, 1908) 

 my shikari minutely described to me a bird that he had seen that day, which 

 could scarcely be anything else but a Wall-Creeper. 



Mr. S. L. Whymper also informed me in a letter (I have not got this by me. 

 but, so far as I remember, it was to the following effect) that a friend of his had 

 actually found a Wall-Creeper nesting somewhere on the North-West Fron- 

 tier, but had been unable to get at the nest. 



Anoethuea magrathi. Whitehead's Wren. 



Whitehead, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 19 (1908). 



343. $. Safed Koh, 12,500 ft., 6th August. 



344. ? Safed Koh, 8,500 ft., 8th August. 



Bill blackish, base and gape yellow ; torsus brownish flesh-coloured ; iris 

 L brown. 



This appears to be a well-marked race of A . neglecta, differing from it in 

 being almost uniform in colouring above, the barring being scarcely perceptible, 

 and in having the throat ashy grey. In summer it is found fairly commonly 

 -on the Safed Koh, from 8,000 feet upwards, chiefly in the juniper-scrub. I 

 have met with it on the very summit of the range, picking about amongst the 

 rocks. 



In habits and song it closely resembles A.parvula and A. neglecta. 



[358.] Regulus cristatus. The Goldcrest. 



Ward, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. Ill, and xviii. p. 461 (not common ; eggs taken 

 in May, June, and July in the Liddar Yalley, Kashmir). 



Fairly numerous in summer amongst the firs and deodars of the Safed Koh 

 from 8,000 to 1.1,000 feet. 



[359.] Aedon eamiliaris. The Grey-backed Warbler. 



Rattray, J. B. N. H. S. xii. pp. 225, b39 and 579 (fairly common at Thall ; 

 found several nests) ; Watson, op. cit. xv. p. 144 (occurs at Chaman, near 

 •Quetta, in August and September) ; dimming, op. cit. xvi. p. 686 (very 

 •common in Seistan in summer). 



246. $ ad. Kohat, 1,760 ft., 6th May. 



Fairly common up to 3,500 feet, from April till September, in dry scrub- 

 jungle ; round Thall it is particularly common. In the breeding-season the 



