686 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XVIII. 



No. XXI.— SOME NOTES ON BIRDS' NESTING IN BURMA. 



Herewith some short notes concerning the nesting of some rare birds received 

 from Mr. K. C. MacDonald. 



(25) — The Burmese Jay (Garrulus leucotis). 



" A nest containing two fledged young birds was found at Taok, Toungnyin 

 Valley, Moulmein Division, 25th April 1907. It was 5 "x2| " placed in an airy 

 bundle of twigs 1 footxl foot deep, in small sapling about 15 feet from the 

 ground in the open jungle within 50 yards of the civil Police Post. Very like 

 nest of the Hooded Racket-tailed Magpie (Crypsirhina cucullatd) shown me at 

 Mongwa." 



(191) — The Indian Blue Chat (Larvivora brunnea). 



" Found breeding at 6,000 feet between Victoria, Chin Hills. Several nests 

 in holes in tanks, birds both shot and snared off nest. Eggs pale spotless blue." 



This is I believe the first record of this bird from Burma. 



(205) — The Grey Sibia (Lioptila gracilis). 



" Nest containing two hard set eggs, was found 6,000 feet Mount Victoria, 

 Chin Hills, 7th May 1906. Bird shot off nest which was on the extreme end of 

 a branch about 25 feet from the ground. Eggs pale greenish blue with nume- 

 rous pale brown markings very like a small light coloured English Blackbird's 



egg." 



I believe this is the first record of this bird from Burma. 



(461) — Hill Warbler (Suya superciliaris). 



"An oval nest with lateral entrance fixed on the branches of small shrubs 

 growing in grass, about 2 to 3 feet from the ground. Eggs pale greenish blue 

 spotted with brown." 



This year at Thandoung I found four nests of this bird, one with 4 eggs, 

 one with 3, and another with young birds. In two cases the nest was within a 

 few feet of the ground in grass. The one with young and an empty one were 

 in small shrubs about 4 feet from the ground. The nests were small untidy 

 grass ovals with a side entrance and very like an unfinished Munia's nest and 

 quite unlike Suyas nests found by me in the Shan States ' which were beauti- 

 fully woven cylindrical in shape made from the flowering heads of grass. The 

 eggs are also quite different not having the pronounced zone round the larger 

 end, but are a pale bluish green ground colour with larger brown specks. 



(611) — The White-tailed Chat (Pratincola leucura). 



" One nest containing 3 hard set eggs, placed in a mass of grass debris on a 

 sand bank in Lower Chindwin river, Pakokku district (in the plains and not 

 the hills) on 20th February 1906. 



Like a nest of the Common Pied Bush Chat, P. caprata, but the eggs very 

 pale unspotted blue." 



(615)— The Dark Grey Bush Chat (Oreicola ferrea). 



" Several nests in April on Mount Victoria, Chin Hills. Of fifteen eggs taken 

 not one was spotted or marked in any way." 



