W. E. Brooks — Cush. mir Birds. 
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notes in a different key ; after a short silence, the long whistle is begun again. 
I have heard more than one visitor to Cashmir call this bird “ the 
whistling bird.” 
The description is as follows : Length 5T5 inch. ; wing 2'2 ; tail 2 2, 
hill '33 and '5 from gape; tarsus '9; irides hazel brown; bill light brown ; 
lower mandible paler, except the tip ; legs, toes and claws light fleshy brown. 
Whole upper surface dull greyish olive or rather pale olive grey ; a 
slight tawny tinge on the wings and basal half of tail, on the outer webs of 
the feathers. Lower back and upper tail coverts rather lighter and brighter 
in tint than the rest of the back ; being more of a pale brown with slight 
tinge of yellow in it. A dull whitish grey supercilium. Pale brown streak 
through the eye. Cheeks and ear-coverts brownish white, mottled with pale 
brown. Chin to abdomen greyish white. Sides of breast, flanks, tibial 
plumes, and lower tail coverts, pale brownish grey ; the flanks being slightly 
tinged with fulvous, and the lower tail coverts still more so ; lining of wing 
creamy white. 
This bird has none of the depth of rich colouring of the Horornis group. 
Its mode of coloration is rather like that of Acrocephalus dumetorum in 
faded summer plumage, but paler and lighter. The tarsi, feet and claws are 
strong and stout. Tail much graduated, the outer feathers being '42 shorter 
than the central ones. In the wing the 5th primary is the longest, and a 
shade longer than the 6th ; 4th a little shorter than 6th ; 3rd equal to 8th ; 
2nd very short, and '48 short of tip of wing. The rictal bristles are distinct 
and almost '22 in. long. The bill has a very faint notch at the end like that 
of lloreites Irunneifrons. 
Pjiylcoscopus magnieostbis. — R ather common in parts of Cashmir. 
It frequents rocky banks of mountain rivers, where they are well wooded. 
Its song is singularly sweet, but very short. I never found its nest owing to 
the great difficulty of the ground on account of the excessive steepness. It 
was most abundant up the Chitterpani from Burrangulla to near the top of 
the Pir Panjal mountain ; also along the banks of the Rembiera river 
between Aliabad serai and Hirpore. I heard a few singing in the woods about 
Gulmurg. I may here remark that P. trochilus does not occur in India, not 
even in Cashmir, and may be safely expunged from our lists. 
Phylloscopus Tyileei, sp. nov. 
In plumage resembling P. viridanus , but of a richer and deeper olive ; 
it is entirely without the " whitish wing bar which is always present in 
viridanus, unless in very abraded plumage. The wing is shorter ; so is the 
tail ; hut the great difference is in the bill, which is much longer, darker and 
of a more pointed and slender form in P . Tytleri. The song and notes are 
utterly different; so are the localities frequented. P. viridanus is an 
