690 Notes on the Nidification of Indian Birds. [Dec. 



white with pinkish tinge, and sparingly sprinkled with lilac spots or 

 specks, and having a well defined lilac ring at the large end. Diameter 



A X A ins- 

 No. 35. — " Pants xanthogenys" (Vig.) 



Common in the hills throughout the year. It breeds in April, in 

 which month a nest containing 4 partly fledged young ones was found 

 at 5,000 ft. ; it was constructed of moss, hair and feathers and placed 

 at the bottom of a deep hole in a stump at the foot of an oak tree ; the 

 colour of the eggs, was not ascertained. 



No. 36. — " Acrocephalus montanus." (Gray's Cat.) 



Salicaria arundinacea f (Hodg. Gray.) 

 This species arrives in the hills up to 7,000 ft. at least, in April 

 when it is very common, and appears in pairs with something of the 

 manner of Phylloscopus. The note is a sharp " tchik-tchik" resem- 

 bling the sound omitted by a flint and steel. It disappears by the end 

 of May, in which month they breed, but owing to the high winds and 

 strong weather experienced in that month in 1848, many nests were left 

 incompleted, and the birds must have departed without breeding. One 

 nest which I took on the 6th May, was a round ball with lateral en- 

 trance ; placed in a thick barberry bush growing at the side of a deep 

 and sheltered ditch ; it was composed of coarse dry grasses externally 

 and lined with finer grass. Eggs 3, and pearl white, with minute scat- 

 tered specks of rufous, chiefly at the large end ; diameter |-§- * T 8 ^- ins. 

 (The high winds which prevailed in May, destroyed an incredible num- 

 ber of the nests of various Doves, Treron sphenura 3 Garrulus lanceo* 

 latuSy &c.) 



No. 37. — " Zosterops palpebrosus." (Temm.) 



Z. annulosus. (Swain.) 



Motacilla madagascariensis. (Gm.) 



Sylvia madagascariensis. (Lin. Lath.) 



Motacilla maderaspatana. (Lin.) 



Sylvia palpebrosa. (Tern.) 



S. leucops. (Vieillot.) 



S. annulosa. (Swain.) 



Zosterops maderaspatana. (Gray's Cat.) 

 These beautiful little birds are exceedingly common at about 5,000 

 ft. during summer, but I never saw them much higher. They arrive 



