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5. Indian Tree-pie — Dendrocitta rufa, (16) 



Foothills only. Nest with 6 eggs on SthMay 1913 and 2 nests 

 on 20th April 1915 in the plains at the foot of the hills. 



6. Himalayan Tree-pie — Dendrocitta himalayensis, (18) 



Very common at about 4,000'. We both got nice series of 

 eggs at dates varying from April 20th to May 16th. The normal 

 clutch was, 1 think, 4, but several nests, containing 3 hard set 

 eggs only, were found. 



7. Indo-Chinese Jay — Garndus oatesi. {26a) 



This rare bird was found in moderate numbers. We took 9 

 nests in 1915 and others in 1913 and 1914, the records of which 

 are as follows : — 



14th May 1913, C/3., Hard set. 



28th April 1914, C/1., Fresh. 



30th April 1914, C/3., Fresh. 



29th April 1915, C/4., Set. 



29th April 1915, C/4., Fresh. 



22nd April 1915, C/5., Set. 



1st May 1915, C/3., Set. 



27th April 1915, C/4., 3 young birds, and one addled egg. 



24th April 1915, C/3., Fresh. 



29th April 1915, C/4., Set. 



27th April 1915, C/4., Fresh. 



27th April 1915, C/4., Very hard set. 

 It seems that the usual time for nesting is April, but a few 

 nests may be taken on into May. 



The bird is a very wily customer, and shy, and it was only 

 with the greatest difficulty that I was able to shoot one off the 

 nest. We failed in 1913. In 1914 the single egg taken on 28th 

 April 1914, was found on 25th April 1914, and we spent many a 

 cramp-stricken hour trying for the bird which would not come 

 in shot ; eventually we had to take the egg, as we were moving 

 camp. However in 1915, I got 2 birds off the nest, and one 

 was trapped on the nest by a Chin. Owing to the bad weather, 

 the skins came down in a terrible state. 



The eggs were of the usual garruline type and show the usual 

 amount of variation, but the birds do not seem to build in 

 colonies as G. leucotis does at Maymyu, and the nests are placed 

 somewhat higher above the ground. One of my clutches has 

 a very light sage green background thickly speckled equally all 

 over with sage-green, Avith underlying markings of a fainter 

 greenish grey, and some gloss. One or two dark brown hair 

 streaks on the large end. In this clutch only one egg has 

 traces of a ring, but generally a ring or cap is distinctly visible 

 at the large end. The shape is a pointed oval with the big end 

 rather more inclined to be pointed than usual. Texture, rough ; 

 grain coarse to normal ; the shell of normal thickness, strong, 

 fairly hard and opaque ; surface slightly pitted. 



In another clutch, the colour is rather brownish, and the 

 markings are all more numerous at the large end. A third has a 

 brownish white back ground with browny-green spots ( almost 

 olive green); a fourth clutch is mottled with lolive, the superficial 

 markings being few. 



