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c/5, Hard set; 6th May 1915, c/4, Fresh; 12th May 1913, 

 c/3, Set ; 25th April 1914, c/3, Fresh. The usual time appears 

 to be April, the normal clutch 3 to 5. The eggs are exceedingly 

 fragile and white with a faint purplish ring round the large 

 end. I have one egg showing a distinct ring of reddish purple 

 speckles overlying a sub-surface clouded ring of faint purple. 

 In this egg there are one or two speckles scattered over the 

 rest of the egg, but in my others the marking is confined to 

 the ring, which is a faint purple ; and there are one or two 

 speckles on the ring of reddish purple (faint). One egg has 

 only a very faint, clouded, discontinuous ring, almost invisible. 

 The ordinary egg is white with a faint clovided purplish ring at 

 the large end on which may be a few distinct speckles of reddish 

 purple. The gloss is only very slight. 



11, Black-spotted Yellow Tit — Machlolophus spilonotus. (41). 



Shot several birds, and found 3 nests containing 9 eggs. As 

 they were all hard set and I found a nest with young, this bird 

 probably breeds early in April. Average size of 7 eggs, "73" x 

 •54", length from -70" to -75", breadth from -52" to -56". Nest 

 and eggs both of the usual tit type. 



12. Austen's Crow-Tit — Paradoxornis guttaticoUis. (52). 



Two birds, with nests ; each contained one fresh egg, •92" x "64" 

 and '87" X "65" in 1915. Nests typical: 3 nests, containing 2 

 eggs each in 1914. 



13. Suthora subsp. nov. 



Close to Suthora poliotis ripponi. It has not yet been 

 described for want of more specimens. A single specimen, 

 noted by Harington in his notes on the Ti7neliides, was obtained 

 in May 1913. It was snared by a Chin, and we never saw 

 another specimen, though we tried hard for more in 1914 and 

 1915. The nest was not procured. 



14, Hoary-headed Crow-Tit — Scceorhynchus f/ularis. (61). 



{Psittijmrus gularis transftavialis) nests and eggs. Nests resemble 

 those of F. guttaticoUis but the eggs are very different, being 

 less fragile, and blotched pretty well all over with greyish and 

 yellowish brown. The eggs measure about 0'78"x0"62". Dates 

 as follows :— C/2 26th April 1914, c/2 28th April 1914, c/2 29th 

 April 1914, c/2 1st May 1914, c/3 4th May 1914, c/2 4th May 

 1914, and two young birds, fully fledged, about the same date 

 Several more nests in 1915. 



16. Rufous-necked Laughing-Thnish — Dryonastes I'uficollis. (62). 

 Nest 1914 at 2,000'. Foothills only. 



16. Austen's Laughing-Thrush — Dryonastes galbanus. (68). 



Fairly common at about 5,000', but appears to be local. 

 Mr. E. C. Stuart-Baker quotes Hopwood as saying that the 

 nest and eggs resemble those of D. ruficollis. The nest certainly 

 does, but none of the eggs actually taken by either of us had the 

 slightest trace of blue. Mr. Stuart-Baker has a blue clutch. 

 (" practically indistinguishable from the eggs of D. rujicollis'^), 

 and several nests of D. galbanus containing blue eggs were 



