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ORNITHOLOGY. 
ascend if they do, as seems probable, cross from Le to 
Yarkand. [A. O. H.] 
560. Phylloscopus viridanus (Blyth). (PI. XIX.) 
This species was common in Hill Yarkand at the Arpalak 
river in August. [G. 7:^.] 
One specimen is quite immature, and it is probable that 
this country is, at least, one of this Tree-warbler^s breeding 
haunts. It is, as already noticed, another of the apparently 
feeble winged species that seem to cross the Kara- 
koram. [A. 0. H.] 
566. Reguloides proregulus (Pallas). 
One specimen, a male in bright plumage, was obtained on 
the 30th of October in the Sind Valley, Kashmir. It was 
never noticed elsewhere, but in the case of Warblers like 
these, that have to be waited and looked for, no conclusions 
can safely be drawn from the impossibility of procuring 
specimens on a hurried march like that of the Yarkand 
Expedition. [G. H.] 
572. Abrornis xanthoschistus (Hodgson). 
(PL XX., fig. 1.) 
This species was very common in Kashmir^ both in 
May and October. [G. H.] 
Throughout the Himalayas south of the first snowy ranges, 
and in all wooded valleys in rear of these, from Darjeling 
to Murree, this species appears to be a permanent resident.' 
I have received its nests and eggs from several sources, 
and have recently taken them myself. They lay in the last 
week of March, April and May; constructing a large globular 
nest, of moss, more or less mingled exteriorly with dry grass, 
and lined thinly with goat's -hair, and then inside this thickly 
with the softest wool, or in one nest that I found with the in- 
ner downy fur of hares. The entrance to the nest is sometimes 
on one side, sometimes almost at the top, and is rather large 
for the size of the bird. The nest is almost without ex- 
ception placed on a grassy bank, at the foot of some small 
bush, and usually contains four eggs. These latter are pure 
white, generally very glossy. In texture the shells are very 
