1872.] W. E. Brooks— Cashmif Birds. 81 



Phylloscoptjs afeinis, — frequents the same brushwood ravines as 

 P. viridanus. The song is very poor and the call note a sparrow-like chirp. 

 I did not find the nest. 



Phylloscoptjs nitidtjs. — I shot one (about 7th May) in the lower 

 ranges, but I never met with either P. Indicus or P. tristis in Cashmir. 



Eegulozdes occipitalis. — Is perhaps the commonest bird in Cashmir, 

 even more so than Passer Indicus. It is a very noisy bird, with a short 

 poor song. I found several nests which were placed in holes under the roots 

 of trees ; one nest was inside a decayed stump. The nest is a loose one of 

 moss, fined with a few hairs. Eggs 4 or 5, and pure white, without any spots. 



Regttloedes trocbziloides. — I shot one in the beginning of May on 

 the Pir Panjal mountain. I never met with it again. 



Regttloldes supeeciliosus. — Is very abundant in Cashmir, and I 

 believe in all bills immediately below the snows. It would be vain to look 

 for this bird at elevations below 8,000 feet, or at any distance from the 

 snows. It was common even in the birch woods above the upper line of 

 pines. I found many nests. It builds a globular nest of coarse grass on a 

 bank side ; always on the ground, and never up a tree, as stated by Mr. 

 Hume's native informant ; the nest is lined with hair in greater or lesser 

 quantities. The eggs, 4 or 5 in number, average "56 by "44 inch ; are pure 

 white, profusely spotted with red, and sometimes have also afew spots of purple 

 grey. On the 15th of June I found a nest with four young ones in the south 

 side of the Pir Panjal pass. This bird has no song ; only a double chirp 

 in addition to its call note. The double chirp which is very loud is intended 

 for a song, for the male bird incessantly repeats it, as he feeds from tree 

 to tree near where the female is sitting upon her nest. 



Reguloides peoregultjs. — Tolerably abundant in the Cashmir pine 

 woods. It has a short twittering song and also a faint shivering sibilant 

 note, like that of P. sibilatrix ; so that the song ascribed by Mr. Blyth 

 to Reguloides superciliosus belonged to the present bird. In addition to 

 these it has its call note. 



Captain Cock took the nest and eggs at Sonamurg. It builds, like 

 the golden-crested Pegulus, up a fir tree at from 6 to 40 feet elevation, on 

 the outer ends of the branches. The nest is of moss, wool and fibres and 

 profusely fined with feathers. Eggs 4 or 5, pure white, profusely spotted 

 with red, and a few spots of purple grey. Size "53 by '43. 



Currtica aeelnis. — Tolerably numerous in Cashmir proper, above the 

 elevation of its plain. The song is loud, full, and sweet. The nest and eggs 

 precisely resemble those of O. garrula, which bird, I may observe, has no 

 more right to be included in the Indian list, than Phylloscopus frocJiilus. 



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