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and bits of down were still adhering to its plumage. It 
would therefore appear that the Wall-Creeper nests within 
Indian limits. When touring through the Kaghan Valley, 
Hazara District, this year (10th of July, 1908) my shikari 
minutely described to me a bird that he had seen that day, 
which could scarcely be anything else but a W r al 1-Creeper. 
Mr. S. L. Whymper also informed me in a letter (I have 
not got this by me, but, so far as I remember, it was to the 
following effect) that a friend of his had actually found a 
Wall-Creeper nesting somewhere on the North-West Frontier, 
but had been unable to get at the nest. 
Anorthura magrathi. Whitehead’s Wren. 
Whitehead, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 19 (1908). 
343. <J. Safed Koh, 12,500 ft., Gth August. 
344. ? Safed Koh, 8500 ft., 8th August. 
Bill blackish, base and gape yellow; tarsus brownish 
flesh-coloured; iris brown. 
This appears to be a well-marked race of A. neglect a, 
differing from it in being almost uniform in colouring above, 
the barring being scarcely perceptible, and in having the 
throat ashy grey. In summer it is found fairly commonly 
on the Safed Koh, from 8000 feet upwards, chiefly in the 
juniper-scrub. I have met with it on the very summit of 
the range, picking about amongst the rocks. 
In habits and song it closely resembles A. parvula. 
[358.] Regulus cristatus. The Goldcrest. 
W r ard, J. B. N. H. S. xvii. p. Ill, and xviii. p. 461 (not 
common ; eggs taken in May, June, and July in the Liadar 
Valley, Kashmir). 
Fairly numerous in summer amongst the firs and deodars 
of the Safed Koh from 8000 to 11,000 feet. 
[359.] Aedon eamiliaris. The Grey-backed Warbler. 
Rattray, J„ B. N. H. S. xii. pp. 225, 339, & 579 (fairly 
common at Thall; found several nests); Watson, op. cit. 
xv. p. 144 (occurs at Chaman, near Quetta, in August and 
