CYAXODERMA. — MIXOUXIS. 115 



and they arc thinly speckled and spotted, the markings being 

 much more numerous about the large end, where they have a 

 tendency to form an ill-delined cap or zone with brownisli red or 

 pinky brown. 



In length they vary from 0-02 to 0-00, and in breadth from O'o 

 to 0-52. 



175. Cyanoderma erytliropterum (Blyth). 2''he lied-w'ufjid 



Bahhler. 

 Cyanoderma erj tbropteiuin, Bl., Hume, Cat. no. 396 bis, 



Mr. "W. Davisou found the nest of the Eed-winged Babbler at 

 Bankasoou on the 23rd April, just when he was leaving the place. 

 Unfortunately the birds had not yet laid. The nest was a ball 

 composed of dry raed-leaves, about G inches in diameter. Extern- 

 ally, with a circular aperture on one side, very like that of Mivornis 

 rubricapUlas and of Dumetia, and again not at all unlike that of 

 Ochromela n'ujrorufa, but placed in a bush about 4 feet high and 

 not on the e:round. 



170. Mixornis rubricapillus (Tick.). The Yellow-hreastM Babbler. 



Mixcirnis rubricapilla (Tick.), Jenl. B. Ind. ii, p. 2.3; Hume, Ruiiyh 

 Draft N. ^- E. no. 39.5. 



This, though said to occur also in Central India, is a purely 

 Indo-Burmese form, found chiefly in the Eastern sub-Himalayan 

 jungles, Assam, Cachar, Burm.a, aud Tenasseriui. 



It is only from this latter province that I have any information 

 as to the nidilication of the Tellow-breasted Babbler. 



Mr. Davison writes to me: — "At a small village, called fShy- 

 mootee or Tsinmokehtee, about 7 miles from the town of Tavoy, 

 aud very slightly above the ?ea-level, say 50 feet, I found on the 

 6th of May, 1874, a nest of this species. The nest was placed in a 

 dense clump of a very thorny plant (somewhat like a pineapple 

 bush) about a foot from the ground ; it \\ as not particularly w ell 

 concealed. The nest was built of bamboo-leaves, aud in general 

 appearance was not at all unlike that of Oclu-omela niyrorufa : but 

 the egg-cavity was very shallow, so that by mo\ing aside an over- 

 hanging leaf the eggs were distinctly visible. There were three 

 partially incubated eggs in the nest, a somewhat dull white, spotted 

 with pinkish dots." 



The nest is more or less egg-shaped, the longer axis vertical, 

 with a circular aperture on one side near the top. 



The exterior diameters are 5 and nearly 4 inches. The aperture 

 about 1-5 in diameter. The cavity is barely 2 inches in diameter, 

 aud only 1-25 deep below the lower edge of the entrance. 



Both nest and eggs strongly recall those of Dumetia lujperythra. 

 The former is composed of the broad, grass-like leaves of the 



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