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soft small feathers. The nest I took was placed next the trunk of a 

 tree and just between two large branches which grew above and below 

 it. There was no lichen on this nest, but there were a few scraps 

 of pine bark fastened here and there by means of cobwebs. The eggs 

 were a dull white marked with reddish-brown, in two eggs the 

 markings consisting of fairly numerous spots, in the third of nothing 

 but very large blotches, one or two being nearly , 2" across. 



(164) P. supbrciliosus. — The Crowned Willow- Warbler. 

 Oates, No. 417 ; Hume, No. 565. 

 A common winter visitant. 



(165) P. mandellii. — Mandelli's Willow-Warbler. 

 Oates, No. 419. 



In 1889 I had a nest of this bird brought to me, which at the time 

 I believed to belong to P. superciliosus, as I mistook the parent birds, 

 which were caught on the nest, for that species. The nest was an oval 

 ball, composed entirely of moss and lined with a little grass and very 

 fine roots. The diameter lengthways was about 6*5" by about 5*5* 

 across. It was said to have been wedged in between some stones 

 on a steep mossy bank. It contained three fresh eggs, white with 

 rather numerous freckles and small spots of rather bright reddish 

 scattered all over the surface, and in one egg forming a distinct ring 

 at the larger extremity. The shell is close and fine and the surface 

 shows a slight gloss. They measure -61"X*43" ; '6"X-42" ; -&>X'^". 

 This nest was taken on a peak above Hungrum and in scrub forest. 

 I unfortunately did not note down the date on which it was taken, but 

 I remember it was during the last few days of March. 



(166) Acanthopneustb nitidtjs. — The Green Willow- Warbler. 



Oates, No. 421 ; Hume, No. 559. 

 An occasional winter visitant. 



(167) A. vieidanus. — The Greenish Willow- Warbler. 

 Oates, No. 42; Hume, No. 560. 

 On the same peak as that on which the nest of P. mandellii was 

 taken I myself found a nest of A. viridanus. The upper part of the 

 road running over this peak is extremely stony and the bank is often 

 merely a mass of stones with large hollows here and there between 

 them. Whilst on the march, in July, 1891, 1 observed a small bird fly 

 out of one of these hollows, and on looking into it found a large loose 

 globular nest made of moss and dead leaves, and lined with white goat's 

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