120 CRATEROPODIB.i;. 



184, Lioparus chrysaeus (Hodgs.). The Golden-lreasted Tit- 

 Bahhler. 



Proparus chrysajus, Hodqs., Jcrd. B. Ind. n, p. 25G ; Hume, Rou(jh 

 Draft N. <t E. no. 621. 



The G-olclen-breasted Tit-Eabbler breeds, according to Mr. Hodg- 

 son's notes, near Darjeeling and in the central region of Nepal. 

 It lays from three to four eggs, which are figured as somewhat 

 broad ovals, measuring 0-7 by 0-5, with a piidvy-white ground, 

 speckled and spotted thinly, except towards the large end, where 

 there is a tendency to form a cap or zone, with brownish red. The 

 nest is oval or rather egg-shaped, and fixed with its longer dia- 

 meter perpendicular to the ground in a bamboo-clump between a 

 dozen or so of the small lateral shoots, at an elevation of only a few 

 feet from the ground. One, taken near Darjeeling on the 12th June, 

 measured externally 6 inches in height, 4'5 in breadth, and 3 

 inches in depth, and on one side it had an oval aperture 2*5 in 

 height and 1*75 in breadth. It appeared to have been entirely 

 com loosed of dry bamboo-leaves and broad blades of grass loosely 

 interwoven, and with a little grass and moss-roots as lining, 



Hodgson originally named this bird Proparus cJiri/soHs, but as the 

 bird has silvery ears Hodgson himself rejected this name and adopted 

 the one given above. Mr. Gray, however, retains the specific name 

 chrijsotls. Now, I think a man has a perfect right to change his oii'ii 

 name ; what I object to is other people presuming to do it for him. 



Subfamily BRACHYPTERYGINtE. 



187. Myioplioneus temmincki, Vigors, The Ilimcdai/an Whisiliwj- 



Thrush. 



Mviophonus teraminckii, J^if/., Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. /jOO ; Hume, Rouqh 

 ^ Draft N. *S- D. no. 343, 



The Himalayan Whistling-Thrush breeds throughout the Hima- 

 layas fi"om Assam to Afghanistan, in shady ravines and wooded 

 glens, as a rule, from an elevation of 2000 to 5000 feet, but, at 

 times, especially far into the interior of the hills, up to even 10,000 

 feet. 



It lays during the last week of April, May, and June. The 

 number of eggs varies from three to five. 



The nest is almost invariably placed in the closest proximity to 

 some niountain-stream, on the rocks and boulders of wliich the 

 mule; so loves to warble ; sometimes on a mossy bank ; sometimes in 

 some rocky crevice hidden amongst drooping maiden-hair ; some- 

 times on some stream-encircled slab, exposed to view from all 

 sides, and not unfrequcntly curtained in by the babbling waters of 

 some little waterfall behind which it has been constructed. The 



