MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 873 



No. XX.— FURTHER OCCURRENCE OF THE ROSE-COLOURED 



STARLING (PASTOR EOSEUS) AND THE FLAMINGO {PHCENI- 



COPTERUS ROSEUS) IN THE DARBHANGA 



DISTRICT, BEHAR. 



Four flamingoes were brought to me on the Ist February this year and 

 they had evidently been snared in some adjoining jheel. The first and 

 last record of this bird from near here was of three brought in on the 22nd 

 November 1907, and already recorded in No. 3, Vol. XVIII, p. 683 of this 

 Journal. This bird must be exceedingly rare here and seems to only 

 occur in small parties at long intervals. 



On the 31st January this year, I shot a single specimen of the Rose- 

 coloured Starling. It flew up from a Chilli field, where it had been feeding 

 on the chillies. It was by itself, but there were specimens of the Pied 

 Myna (Sturnopastor contra) feeding not far oft". This is also a rare bird here, 

 and the last record I have of it appear to be the 12th March 1909. 



CHAS. M. INGLIS, m.b.o.u. 

 Baghownie Fty., Laheria Sarai : 

 Behar, 11th March 1919. 



No. XXI.— DIFFERENT BIRDS NESTING IN COMPANY. 



There is in my compound a palm tree, the name of which I am afraid I 

 do not know, which has the following nests in it : — 



Common Myna, 2 nests with young. 



Bengal Red-vented Bulbul with young. 



Ashy Swallow Shriks with young. 



Spotted Munia building. 



Magpie Robin with eggs. The leaves of this tree form natural hollows 

 where they join the trunk and are ideal nesting sites. The tree is about 35 

 feet high. 



W. H. MATTHEWS. 



RUNGI RUNGLIOT P. O. : 

 Darjeeling, 10th July 1919. 



No. XXII.— NOTES ON SOME NESTS RECENTLY FOUND 

 IN SOUTH TENASSERIM. 



I hope at a later date to be able to publish a full list of the birds met 

 with during my residence in South Tenasserim, but it seems desirable to 

 record, without further delay, these notes on the nidification of certain 

 species, concerning which the information is at present very meagre. 

 21. Black Racket-tailed Magpie. — Crypsirhina varians. 

 These birds are common throughout the Tavoy and Mergui districts wher- 

 ever the forest is of a fairly open type, and where there is a pr'sponder- 

 ance of bamboo : they are not found in heavy evergreen jungle. The nests 

 are built, as a rule, in bamboo clumps, at a height of about ten to twenty 

 feet from the ground, and are composed of twigs, and often, but by no 

 means always, lined with tendrils. The normal clutch appears to be three, 

 but I have found only two incubated eggs, and very occasionally four are 

 laid. There is nothing to add to the description of the eggs given by Hume, 

 and all the eggs taken by Mackenzie (who was with me in 1918), and 

 myself fail within the limits of measurement quoted by him. The nests 

 seem by me, eleven in all, were found between the 16th and 26th April, 

 and I do not know if the birds breed again in July, as they do near 

 Rangoon. 



