Pallas’s willow-warbler. 
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hweet." Dr. Dybowski says that its note is melodious and 
powerful, and its song varied and sweet, and so loud that it 
rings through the forest, and is astonishing as coming from so 
small a bird. 
Pallas’s Willow- Warbler is chiefly an inhabitant of the pine 
woods, and makes it nest on the branches of the smaller pines 
and moss-covered cedars, near the stem. In Kashmir, Captain 
Cock found the nest placed on the outer end of the branch of 
a fir tree, from six to forty feet elevation, and sometimes on a 
small sapling pine where the junction of the bough with the 
stem takes place. 
Nest— “The nest,” says Captain Cock, “is partially domed, 
the outer portion consisting of moss and lichen, so arranged as 
to harmonise with the bough on which it is placed, and lined 
with feathers and thin birch-bark strips, never with hair.” 
Eggs. — Described by the above-named observer as being five 
in number, pure white, richly marked with dark brownish-red, 
particularly at the larger end, forming there a fine zone on most 
of the eggs, and intermingled with these spots, and especially 
on the zone, are some spots and blotches of deep purple-grey. 
Axis, 0-53-0-S5 inch; diam., o-43-o-44. 
ADDENDA TO VOL. III. 
° ’ Range of the king-eider 
Mr. k. Trevor-Battye has pointed out to me that, by a 
lapsus calami, I have included Spitsbergen as one of its winter 
habitats. He says : — “As a fact this Duck has been many times 
recorded in the summer in Spitsbergen, while in the winter it 
obviously cannot be there, nor could it be recorded if it were.” 
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With regard to the statement of the “ Son of the Marshes,” 
that “ when the young are alarmed, they scatter out,” the most 
interesting point in the nesting habits of ^E. hiaticola is that 
the parent bird itself, if suddenly disturbed, scatters the young 
ones with its feet, no doubt for purposes of better conceal- 
ment ; for the young, when so scattered, instantly squat down 
