Mr. Brooks, however, says:--"Near Shupyion (Cashmere) I found a finished empty nest of this truly aquatic warbler in a rose-bush which was intergrown with rank nettles. This was in the roadside where there was a shallow stream of beautifully clear water. On either side of the road were vast tracts of paddy swamp, in which the natives were busily engaged planting the young rice-plants. The nest strongly resembled that of _Curruca garrula_. The male with his throat puffed out was singing on the bush a loud vigorous pretty song like a Lesser Whitethroat's, but more varied. I shot the strange songster, on which the female flew from the nest. This was the only pair of these interesting birds that I met with. I think, therefore, that their breeding in Cashmere is not a common occurrence." This nest, now in my collection, was found on the 13th June, at an elevation of about 5500 feet, in the Valley of Cashmere. It is a deep, almost purse-like cup, very loosely and carelessly put together, of moderately fine grass, in amongst which a quantity of wool has been intermingled. 371. Tribura thoracica (Blyth). _The Spotted Bush-Warbler_. Dumeticola affinis (_Hodgs.), Jerd. B. Ind._ ii, p. 158. Dumeticola brunneipectus, _Bl., Hume, Rough Draft N. & E._ no. 519 bis. Mr. Hodgson gives a very careful figure of a female bird of this species, together with its nest and egg, but he labels it underneath _affinis_. As we know, he described _affinis_ as having spots on the breast; but he further notes that at the same place at which he obtained the female, nest, and eggs, he also got a male bird with spots on the breast; in fact, in other words, he seems to have come to the conclusion that _Dumeticola affinis_ was the male and that _Dumeticola brunneipectus_, which he did not separately name, though he has beautifully figured it, was the female. I have specimens of both, but the sexes were not ascertained; still I doubt whether the two birds can possibly be merely different sexes of the same species. Anyhow, the female bird which he figures (No. 826) is really _brunneipectus_, and under that name I notice the nest and eggs on which the female figured was captured. Mr. Hodgson notes:--"_Gosainthan_. In the snows; female and nest. "_August 2nd_.--Nest in a bunch of reeds placed slantingly: ovate in shape; aperture at one side; placed about half a foot above the ground, made of grasses and moss, 4 or 5 inches in diameter exteriorly, interiorly between 2 and 3 inches." The eggs are figured as moderately broad ovals, measuring 0·65 by 0·48, of a uniform deep cinnabar-red, reminding one of the eggs of _Prinia socialis_, but much deeper in colour[A].