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CATALOGUE. 
Zosterops palpebrosus, Blyth^J. A. S. Beng. XV. p. 44; 
Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 220. G. B. Grwy, 
Gen. of Birds, I. p. 198. Bonap., C. G. Av. 
p. 398. 
Zosterops madagascariensis of India, vel Z. maderas- 
patana Auctorum (vide J. A. S. Beng. JLTV. p. 562). 
Sylvia annulosa, var. a., Swains., Zool. III. 
Zosterops nicobaricus, Blytli, J. A. S. Beng. XIV. 
p. 563 ; XV. p. 370. 
The White-eyed Warbler, Lath. 
A. and Drawing. Assam. Presented by J. McClel- 
land, Esq. 
b. c. d. Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq., 
June, 1853. 
" These beautiful little birds are exceedingly common at Mussooree, 
at an elevation of about 5,000 feet, during summer, but I never saw 
them much higher. They arrive from the plains about the middle 
of April, on the 17th of which month I saw a pair commence 
building in a thick bush of Hyliscus ; and on the 27th of the same 
month the nest contained three small eggs, hard set. I subsequently 
took a second from a similar bush, and several from the drooping 
branches of oak-trees, to the twigs of which they were fastened. It 
is not placed on a branch, but is suspended between two thin twigs, to 
which it is fastened by floss silk, torn from the coccoons of Boiribyx 
Huttoni, Westw., and by a few slender fibres of the bark of trees, 
or hair, according to circumstances. So slight and so fragile is the 
little oval cup, that it is astonishing the mere weight of the parent 
bird does not bring it to the ground; and yet, within it, three 
young ones will often safely outride a gale that will bring the 
weightier nests of Jays and Thrushes to the ground. Of seven nests 
now before me, four are composed externally of little bits of green 
moss, cotton, and seed-down, and the silk of the wild mulberry moth 
torn from the coccoons, with which last material, however, the others 
appear to be bound together ; within, the lining of two is of the long 
hairs of the Yak's tail {BoepJiagus grunniens), two of which died on 
the estate where these nests were found ; and the third is lined with 
black human hair ; the other three are formed of somewhat different 
materials, two being externally composed of fine grass-stalks, seed- 
down, and shreds of bark, so fine as to resemble tow ; one is lined 
