42 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker on the 



appearance. I have met with none similar to the commonest 

 type of egg of D. riifa (in which the ground is a pale salmon- 

 buff colour, profusely marked with reddish), and, on the 

 other hand, a great many eggs are of a far more decidedly 

 green tinge, both as regards ground-colour and markings, 

 than are any of the eggs of that bird, or one in fifty of 

 D. himalayensis. 



Beyond saying that in typical eggs of D. frontalis they 

 are more numerous, there is nothing to add as regards the 

 character and distribution of the markings to what has 

 already been said of the eggs of D. rufa by Gates, and in 

 texture and shape they also very closely resemble these eggs, 

 though they average somewhat smaller and broader. 



Thirty-six eggs average 1"*08 by 0"'83, and in length 

 range between 0"*98 and 1"'21 and in breadth between 0""80 

 and 0"-87. 



-They breed in Cachar from the middle of April up to the 

 end of July. 



2. Paradoxornis flavirostris. (Oates, op. cit. i. p. 62.) 

 The majority of the nests I have found of this Crow- 

 Tit have been very deep, compact, well-made cups, out- 

 wardly composed of shreds of grass-blades and very fine 

 strips of the stems, equally fine and narrow pieces of bamboo- 

 leaves, and very, very rarely one or two exceedingly fine 

 pliant twigs, matching in colour the yellow or reddish yellow 

 of the other materials. The lining is, as a rule, formed of 

 even finer scraps torn from the inner bark of ekra-stems, 

 but on one occasion I found a nest lined with buffalo-hair ; 

 this, however, must have been a very abnormal nest, and it 

 is unlikely I shall ever see such another. 



Some nests, while resembling the above in every other 

 particular, differ only in shape, being broad shallow cups. 

 The difference cannot be better shown than by giving the 

 measurements of two nests, one of each type: — 1st, outer 

 diameter 3""7, inner diameter 2""6, outer depth 3"*2, inner 

 depth 2"'4; 2nd nest, outer diameter 4"'l, inner diameter 

 3"-2, outer depth 2", inner depth l"-4. 



