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measuring 0-75 inches in length by 0'6 in breadth. In colour 

 they are greenish- white or creamy-stone, thickly spotted and 

 blotched with yellowish- and reddish-brown, with occasional under- 

 lying patches of pale inky purple ; the markings are usually more 

 numerous at the larger end, 



Hyderabad, Sind, April. H. E. Barnes. 



Konkan, February. G. Vidal, C.S. 



Nassick, March and April. J. Davidson, C.S, 



Kliandesh „ ,, 



Baroda, March. H. Littledale, Esq. 



267.— THE LITTLE PIED SHRIKE. 



Hemipus picatus, Sykes, 



The Little Pied Shrike is rare, and is apparently confined to the 

 Sahyadri range. It has been recorded from Savantwadi, in the 

 Southern and Western Khandesh, in the northern parts of these 

 hills. 



Mr. Davidson writes as follows : — " This little Shrike is not un- 

 common in the Satpooras (Khandesh), but is, in my experience, rare 

 in the Ghats. I took a nest just under the crest of the Ghats, in 

 West Nassick, on the 25th May 1887. The nest was on the upper 

 side of a horizontal branch of a tall silk cotton tree, near the tip of 

 the branch. It was a large pad of moss, bound round and to the 

 branch with spider webs, and was lined with fine grass. It is the 

 shallowest nest I have ever seen* The eggs were miniatures of those 

 of the Common Wood Shrike." 



268.— THE BLACK-HEADED CUCKOO SHRIKE. 



The Black-headed Cuckoo Shrike is absent altogether from Sind, 

 and is very rare at Abu, but becomes more common further south. 

 It is a permanent resident, but wanders about a good deal during 

 the cold season. It breeds from June to August, making a shallow 

 nest, composed of thin twigs and grass roots bound together with 

 spider webs. The eggs, three or four in number, are longish ovals, 

 pointed at one end, measuring 0'85 inches in length by 0'66 in 

 breadth ; they are pale-greeuish white in colour, boldly marked 

 with spots and streaks of brown. 



Wassind, Bombay, July. H. E. Barnes. 



Baroda, June and July* H. Littledale, Esq. 



Dhulia, W. Kliandesh) June and, July. J. Davidson, C.S. 



