1872.] 
W. E. Brooks — Cashmir Birds. 
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Piiylloscopus affents, — frequents the same brushwood ravines as 
P. viridanm. The song is very poor and the call note a sparrow-like chirp. 
I did not find the nest. 
PnrLLOscoiH's n minus. — I shot one (about 7th May) in the lower 
ranges, hut I never met with either P. Indicus or P. tristis in Cashmir. 
Reguloides occipitalis. — I s perhaps the commonest bird in Cashmir, 
even more so than Passer Indicus. It is a very noisy bird, with a short 
poor song. I found several nests which were placed in holes under the roots 
of trees ; one nest was inside a decayed stump. The nest is a loose one of 
moss, lined with a few hairs. Eggs 4 or 5, and pure white, without any spots. 
REaunorDES trociulotbes. — I shot one in the beginning of May on 
the Pir Panjal mountain. I never met with it again. 
ItKGUf.oiDES suPERdT.losrs. — Is very abundant in Cashmir, and I 
believe in all hills immediately below the snows. It would be vain to look 
for this bird at elevations below 8,000 feet, or at any distance from the 
snows. It was common even in the birch woods above the upper line of 
pines. I found many nests. It builds a globular nest of coarse grass on a 
hank side ; always on the ground, and never up a tree, as stated by Mr. 
Hume’s native informant ; the nest is lined with hair in greater or lesser 
quantities. The eggs, 4 or 5 in number, average - 56 by *44 inch ; are pure 
white, profusely spotted with red, and sometimes have also afew spotsof purple 
grey. On the 15th of June I found a nest with four young ones in the south 
side of the Pir Panjal pass. This bird has no song ; only a double chirp 
in addition to its call note. The double chirp which is very loud is intended 
for a song, for the male bird incessantly repeats it, as he feeds from tree 
to tree near where the female is sitting upon her nest. 
Reguloibes peobegubtts.— Tolerably abundant in the Cashmir pine 
woods. It has a short twittering song and also a faint shivering sibilant 
note, like that of P. sibilatrix ; so that the song ascribed by Mr. Blyth 
to Beguloides superciliosus belonged to the present bird. In addition to 
these it has its call note. 
Captain Cock took the nest and eggs at Sonamurg. It builds, like 
the golden -crested Begulus, up a fir tree at from 6 to 40 feet elevation, on 
the outer ends of the branches. The nest is of moss, wool and fibres and 
profusely lined with feathers. Eggs 4 or 5, pure white, profusely spotted 
with red, and a few spots of purple grey. Size "53 by 13. 
Cueetjca affenes. — Tolerably numerous in Cashmir proper, above the 
elevation of its plain. The song is loud, full, and sweet. The nest and eggs 
precisely resemble those of C. garrula, which bird, I may observe, has no 
more right to be included in the Indian list, than Phglloscopus trochilus. 
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