ORNITHOLOGY. 
part, at any rate, of the hot weather, was obtained on the 
return journey at the foot of the hills leading into Kashmir. 
[G. H.-\ 
Dr. Finch has kindly informed me that the name by 
which I characterized this species in the Ibis " must yield 
precedence to a name conferred by himself, since the latter 
was read on the 10th June, 1869, and the former, though 
assigned many months previous to that date, was not 
published until February, 1870. 
This species is said by my collectors to breed high up in 
the Sutlej valley in April and May, and Mr. Brookes saw 
the old birds feeding their young in the neighbourhood of 
Almora in May and June. The eggs that I possess sup- 
posed to belong to this species were thus obtained. My 
kind friend Mr. R. Thompson sent two men, one an expe- 
rienced shikaree, and the other a stuffer, into Upper 
Garhwal to procure birds and eggs for me, especially those 
of the large pheasants. The men returned with numerous 
skins, but without a single egg of the species they had been 
directed to search for. They brought with them, however, 
two nests of eggs which they had found on the ground, 
along with a skin of one of the parent birds belonging to 
each nest. The skin pertaining to the nest of larger eggs, 
which I am about to describe, was that of the present 
species, the other was that of Anthus rosaceus. The men 
had never been instructed to search for eggs of this kind; 
they had no earthly object in deceiving ; the birds are both 
very common in the interior where they were, and the 
shikaree is not likely to have been himself deceived as to 
the bird really belonging to the eggs he brought. There is, 
therefore, a pretty fair presumption that these eggs are what 
they profess to be, but until seen and taken by a reliable 
European observer doubts must exist, since the eggs are very 
peculiar. They are moderately broad ovals, slightly com- 
pressed towards the small end, and in size, shape, and 
general colour, might almost, I think, pass for those of the 
Redwing. The ground colour is a rather pale olive green, 
or greenish stone colour, and they are excessively minutely 
freckled all over, but most densely towards the large end, with 
