108 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XIX, 



My thanks are due to Mr. Ogilvie-Grant for kindly assisting me in 

 identifying my specimens and in helping me with their descriptions, 

 and to Mr. E. W. Gates for his encouragement and help in making 

 out this list. 



I have taken the liberty of giving the descriptions of those birds 

 not mentioned in the " Fauna of India," with a hope they may be of 

 assistance to others, as I found it a great drawback whilst collecting 

 not to be able to recognise the different birds. 



All species actually collected and identified with those in the 

 Natural History Museum are marked with an asterisk. 



CORVID^. 



(4) CoRVUS MACRORHYNCHDS, Wagl. -(The Jungle Crow.) 



Common everywhere in the plains, a good many finding their way up into 

 the Hills, where, however, they are very wild and keep well to the jungles. 

 (8) CoRVUS INSOLENS, Hume.— (The Burmese House-Crow.) 



Common round villages along the river, and a positive nuisance at Bhamo 

 itself. Does not penetrate into the jungles, but re-appears in the Loije Valley 

 on the Chinese frontier. This is probably one of its most easterly limits. 

 *(IU6) Pica sericsa, Gould.— (Th3 Chinese Magpie.) 

 Hartert Vog. Die Pal. Fauna, page 22. 



{Tranx.) "Distinguished by the dark colouring of its tail and wings. The 

 bla'jk at the base of the primaries and primary coverts being very much 

 extended : the primaries are also almost blue and not a bright green. The 

 middle tail feathers almost steel blue, seldom green. Legs and feet veiy 

 strong. Rump patch always present, generally gray, rarely white. 



From Upper Burma, through China into South Japan, Hainan, Formosa, 

 northwards into Korea." 



The Chinese Magpie's nesting habits seem to be identical with the home bird, 

 building the same massive domed nest, which however seems bigger, most 

 probably due to the same nest having been used for many successive years. 

 They are early breeders, beginning nesting operations in Januaiy, ai d by the 

 middle of March the eggs aie either very much incubated or the young birds 

 hatched out. The eggs are very like those of the home bird, but seem more 

 baldly marked, six seims to be the full ccnr.pk merit. 



Very common along the Chinese frontier. I have also seen birds at Bhamo 

 where' a pair used to breed in the Military Police Fort: a pair have started 

 building near their old site. 



Nestlnr/.—At Loije on the 2'Jth March I found a nest in a small peepul 

 tree On sending up a coolie a cock Koel flew out of the tree, as well as a 

 Magpie from the nest. As the Koel had been continually calling during our 

 stay there I had hopes of again getting their eggs from a Magpie's nest, and 

 sure enough, when the coolie dessended he brought down four Magpie's and 



