238 BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



becomes more common further south and east. In most of these 

 places it occurs merely as a passing visitor, but some few remain 

 to breed at suitable places on the Ghats ; the nest is a clumsy-look- 

 ing structure, with an entrance on one side, composed of dead 

 leaves, grass, and fine twigs, lined with finer grass aud leaves. 



It is usually placed in a bush or low tree, occasionally on the 

 ground; the eggs, four or five in number, are broad oval in shape, 

 measuring an inch in length by rather more than 0*£5 in breadth . 

 in colour they are a beautiful glossy chin a- white, with deep maroon 

 and purplish spots, streaks, and hair lines, denser towards the larger 

 end, where they often form a zone or cap ; occasionally the lines are 

 absent, and the egg is merely speckled finely at the larger end with 

 maroon and pale lilac. 



Khondabhari Ghat, Khandish, July. J. Davidson, C.S. 



Bangs, Nassich, June, Do. 



Coast, Kanara, June. Do. 



Khandalla, June {nest only), II. E. Barnes. 



Saugor, C. P., July. Do. 



354.— THE WHITE- WINGED GROUND THRUSH. 



Geociehla cyanotis, Jard. 

 The White-winged Ground Thrush is a permanent resident all 

 along the Sahyadri Eange, common in the south, but becoming 

 much less so further north. It breeds early in the rains, making a 

 cup-shaped nest of grass-roots and twigs, with which a great deal of 

 earth is incorporated ; it is usually placed in a fork in a tree, at no 

 great height from the ground. The eggs, three or four in number, vary 

 a good deal both in size and colour. The usual type has a very pale 

 green ground colour, spotted and speckled with various shades of 

 reddish-brown ; occasionally the ground colour is pale olive-green 

 and sometimes of a pale fawn. They measure one inch in length by 

 nearly 072 in breadth. 



Khandalla, June, B. E. Barnes. 



Khondabhari Ghat, Khandesh, July 8f August. J. Davidson, C.S. 



Dangs, Nassick, June. D°- 



359.— THE BLACK-CAPPED BLACKBIRD. 

 Merula nigropilea Lafr. 

 The Blackbird does not occur in Sind, is rare at Mount Aboo, 

 and in Khandesh occurs only as a straggler, but in the Ghat parts 



