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No. VIII —BREEDING OF THE BLACK-BREASTED YELLOW- 

 BACKED SUNBIRD (jETBOPYGA SATURAT.i) IN THE 

 CHUTLA BHEEL, CACHAR DI>STRICT. 



Mr, Primrose in epistola says : — " I found a nest of 890 ^E. saturata, the 

 Blackbreasted Honeysucker, on the 11th of June, attached to a bamboo, 

 about 3 feet from the ground. It contained two fresh eggs, broadish ovals, 

 of a white colour, freckled all over with greyish-pink or lilac, forming a zone 

 at the thicker end. Female identified and shot off nest." 



The nest, which he kindly sent me, is of rather neat construction. It is pear- 

 shaped, and made of what seems to be the black hair-like rootlets, in which are 

 incorporated some dry bamboo leaves and a little moss. Within these rootlets 

 is a lining of fine grass stems. Again, the egg cavity is lined with down. The 

 opening is to the side, and overhung by a cornice which projects l'4in. above 

 the entrance. In length it is about Sin. ; and the circumference above the 

 cornice is 6^in., that of below the entrance being 9in. Inside the breadth at 

 entrance is 2in. ; and the egg cavity is also 2in. deep. The entrance itself 

 measures 1'2" x 0'7" and the cornice 2"7" x 1'2." 



C, M. INGLIS. 



Darbhanga, Tirhoot, July, 1898. 



No, IX.— OCCURRENCE OF THE BLACK-CAPPED KINGFISHER 



{HALCYON F'lLEATA) AND THE BLACK-LEGGED FALCONET 



{MICROHIERAX FRINGILLARIUS) in the CHUTLA 



BHEEL, CACHAR. 



Mr, Primrose, writing from the above district, says:—" I have managed to 

 get, amongst other birds a couple of Black-legged Falconets (il/, fringillarius) 

 and a Black-capped Purple Kingfisher ( H. pileata )." The finding of this 

 bird in the above district, which adjoins Hylakandy, tends to confirm my 

 latter opinion, that the bird which I got in Hylakandy, and noticed in my 

 list of birds of that district, ® was that species. 



C. M. INGLIS. 



Darbhanga, Tirhoot, July, 1898. 



No. X.— NOTE ON THE NIDIFICATION OF THE WHITE-NECKED 

 STORK, {DISSURA EPISCOPUS). 



On the 22nd of this month I found three nests of this species. They 

 were all three on Simul trees, two of them being on the same tree, on the same 

 branch and touching one another. Both trees were close to villages and people 

 were continually passing beneath them. The tree on which the single nest 

 was, I was unable to have climbed, as even after climbing 60 feet by the help 



• Vide the Society's Journal, Vol. XI, page 478. 



