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naked, bnt easily recognized by the very broad and overhanging upper 

 mandible, and by the yellowish colour of the skin, the young of the black 

 and red Broadbill being pinkish flesh-colour at the same age. 



The Duksy Broadbill is a sluggish bird of rather crepuscular habits ; the 

 one or two I have shot had been feeding on a very evil-smelling beetle 

 until they positively stank. 



The hot springs which are not uncommon in the Malay Peninsula are a 

 great attraction to many denizens of the forest, and are excellent spots 

 for collecting. The hot mud round them is often cut up with the foot- 

 prints of sambur, crossed here and there by the deep heart-shaped track 

 of that grandest of living bovines, the bison — the ' Seladang ' of the Malays ; 

 the little brown Cuckoo Doves {M. tusalia) crowd and flutter in the sur- 

 rounding trees, while circling slowly round and round in the sulphurous 

 steam, glittering in the chequered light that filters through the foliage, flies 

 that prince of butterflies, the Omithoptera hrooheana. But this note was to 

 have been on the nest of the Broadbill — not the fauna of a hot spring. 



The Cuesnut-backed FoRKrAii. {HydmcicUa ruficapilla, Temm.) 



I do not remember to have seen an account of the nidificatinn of this 

 species. I took a nest in May this year on the Larut Hills, Perak, at 

 2,500 ft, elevation. The nest, very robin-like in external appearance, was 

 placed in a crevice in a moss-covered rock at the edge of a bridle path, and 

 being covered with green moss harmonized well with its surroundings. 

 It was coniDOsed of dead leaves, moss, and clay, the large amount of the 

 latter material employed, making the nest remarkably heavy. There were 

 two eggs measuring 1 in, X"75 in., glossy China white spotted with rufous, 

 principally in a zone round the larger end, with a few pale purplish-grey 

 markings underlying the spots. 



Blyth's Frogmouth {Batrachostomus affinis, Tilyth.j 



A nest in the Selangor Museum is a most beautiful little piece of bird 

 work, a tiny pad (measuring only \h long, 1^ in, broad, and y% in, deep at 

 the sides) composed entirely of the whitish-grey powder-down of the bird, 

 woven into a beautifully elastic felt. Not a particle of any other material 

 has been employed as seems to be usual with B. hoclgsoni and B. moniUgrir. 

 The nest, too, is much smaller in proportion to the size of the bird. The 

 single egg rests in a fairly deep cavity and completely fills the nest, the 

 under surface of which is deeply grooved by the impression of the thin 

 branch on which it was placed. 



The egg is as usual glossless white, and appears to be a good deal smaller 

 than the egg of B. hodgsom, but is unfortunately so broken that accurate 

 rceasurements cannot be taken. 



The date on which this nest was obtained has not been noted. 



