7o0 JOUEXAL, BOMBAY XATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXV. 



not always double-brooded ; with regard to the nests, they appear to be 

 almost invariably domed, while each species seems to stick to one situ- 

 ation in which to build. P. s. mearsi builds on the ground (my nest found 

 on a clump of dead and broken bamboos was practically on the ground) as 

 do P. o. ripponi, P. r. bcikeri, P. f. fhayrei and P. e. macclellandi , while P. 

 muchalis and P. h. hypoleutus build in bamboo clumps 2 to 5 feet above the 

 ground. All these facts want further proof. 



J. M. D. MACKENZIE, i.f.8., .m.b.o.i., v.y..^. 

 Prome, 

 2SiA Dec. 1917. 



No. XJ.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON SOME BIRDS IN THE 



CHIN HILLS, BURMA. 



In 1916 I was touring in the Chin Hills (Latitude 23°) during April and 

 the beginning of May and made the following notes which may of interest. 



I was fortunate in discovering a new species of Larrivora the description 

 of which as described by Mr. Stuart Baker in " Novitates Zoologici©," 

 Vol. XXIII, page 288, September 1916, I enclose. 



This bird was obtained by me on the 1st May on the march from Fort- 

 White, Chin Hills, to the plains, the nest was situated on the cleared space 

 above the actual side cutting uf the hill side mule track ; at this place the 

 cutting was about 4 feet high. The nest was placed under a dried bracken 

 leaf bent down, made of leaves, moss and lined hair, the parent bird flut- 

 tered off as 1 came near, into the jungle below the path, but waiting for it 

 1 secured it on its return which the bird soon did. The white legs drooping 

 as it flew away off the nest were most conspicuous. 



Unfortunately I did not reach my Camp till dark when failing to identify 

 the bird I had to skin it by candle light and failed to sex it — the nest con- 

 tained 4 eggs of a greenish blue colour. 1 also secured 2 nests and the 

 parent bird of (13) Yellow-billed Blue Magpie, Urocissa ftarirostrif. Mr. 

 Stuart Baker says of this bird " it differs from the more Western form in 

 several particulars which may however be only individual." I believe, 

 however, this is the first record of this bird in Burma. 



Other birds obtained and nidification of some are recorded below, to- 

 gether with some recorded from the Mount Victoria part of the Chin Hills 

 in 1917. 



Ashy Laughing-Thrush, Icmthocincla cineracea (79). C/'2 — 28th April and 

 young, bird shot. 



McCielland's Scimitar Babbler, Pomatoyhinv.< maclellandi — (130). C/o, 

 2oth April. Bird shot and identified. 



Rippon's Bar-wing, ^-IcfmoAira ecjcrtoni ripponi — (21 1«). C/3, 24th April. 



Grey Sibia, Lioptila f/vacUis — (20o). C/2, Bird shot, common and noisy 

 enough to be almost a nuisance. 



Orange-barred Willow-Warbler, PluiUoscopus pulchcr — (414). C/3, 13th 

 April and C/4, 24th April ; the former contained an egg ("84 X ■•56) white 

 with a few red spots at the large end of Cuculus saturatus; Bird identified 

 in England by Mr. Stuart Baker ; common. 



Brooks's Crey-headed Flycatcher Warbler. Clii-i/ptoloplia jcnhmi — (43o). 

 C/4, 19th April. Bird shot. 



Indian Skylark, ^4/a?«/« //«///«/« — (861). At 9,U00 feet elevation in the 

 short grass of the wind swept bare top of the Kennedy Peak ridge, the 

 highest point of this part of the Hills. C/3, C/3 Fresh C/3, just hatching 

 and one nest with young, 26th April. 



Dimensions of bird shot were length 6'o", tail 2"4", wing 3"6", tarsus "8", 

 bill from gape -6", flank stripes present, but few. 



