416. Phylloscopus subviridis (Brooks). _Brooks's Willow-Warbler_.

Reguloides subviridis, _Brooks, Hume, cat._ no. 566 bis.

Colonel Biddulph remarks that this species is common in Gilgit at 5000

feet in March, April, May, and beginning of June, and that it breeds

in the Nulter valley in July at 10,000 feet. Young birds were shot in

August fully fledged.

Major Wardlaw Ramsay observes on the label of a specimen procured by

him at Bian Kheyl in Afghanistan in April, "evidently breeding"; and

on that of another specimen shot in May at the same place, "contained

eggs nearly ready to lay."

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