UU JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 1890. 



at one end. A common type is a pale salmon-white, thickly splashed 

 and streaked with bright reddish-brown ; another type is pale 

 greenish-white, and the markings are olive and pale purplish-brown ; 

 others are intermediate between these two types ; some of these are 

 exact counterparts, except in size, of eggs of the Indian Grey 

 Shrike {Lanius lahtora). In length they measure from 1*0 to 1*3 

 inches, and in breadth from 0*78 to 0*95, but the average is about 

 117 inches by 0-87. 



678.— THE LONG-TAILED MAGPIE. 



Dendrocitta kucogastra, Gould. 



I am indebted to Mr. Davidson for the following note. I do not 

 think that the bird has previously been recorded from Western India. 



" This is, I think, a permanent resident in the Ghat portion of 

 Kanara, but it is not a common bird. I have never taken the eggs, 

 but I have seen the young just able to fly ; the nest which they had 

 left was on a small tree, about sixteen feet from the ground, in a 

 thick clump, and was a very slight structure, much resembling that 

 of Dendrocitta rufa." 



The nest and eggs, according to Mr. Hume, do not differ from 

 those of the Common Indian Pie. 



Wlbis.— THE LESSER STARLING. 

 Sturnus minor, Hume. 



The Lesser Starling is a permanent resident in some parts of Sind. 



The following interesting note is from the pen of Mr. Doig, who 

 appears to be the only oologist who has succeeded in finding the 

 nest : — 



* " In February I shot one of these birds, and on dissection found 

 that they were beginning to breed. Later on, early in March, I 

 again dissected one, and found that there was no doubt on the sub- 

 ject, and so began to look for their nests. 



" These I found in holes in Kundy trees, growing along the banks 

 of the Narra, and also situated in the middle of swamps. The eggs 

 were laid on a pad of feathers of the Spoon-bill {Platalea leucorodia), 

 and the Pelican Ibis (Tantalus leucocepkalus), which were breeding on 



*Stray Feathers, Vol, Fill, p. 374. 



