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does not place its nest eitlier on or very close to the ground, 

 at all events not often. Many are placed four to five feet 

 up in thick bushes, bamboo-clumps, or other similar suitable 

 places. One I took from a bush was over seven feet from the 

 ground, and two or three others taken from bamboo-clumps 

 were quite as high up. 



Three is the most usual complement of eggs, four being 

 seldom laid ; they are, of course, pure white, and in texture 

 like others of the genus, and they are fairly glossy. Typically 

 they are blunt elongated ovals, but short ovals occur. The 

 only fifteen eggs I have measured average 1"*15 by 0"'716. 



These birds seem to breed only at heights over 3000 feet, 

 and are very early breeders ; all my eggs have been taken 

 on or before the 26th May, Avitli the exception of one clutch 

 taken on the 12th July. During this month, however, I 

 found nearly all the young fully fledged, and the three eggs 

 I took were probably a second brood. 



The nest is made in bamboo-jungle, bush-scrub, the borders 

 of cultivation, and on the outskirts of forests; seldom, I 

 believe, any great distance in their interior. 



10. PoMATORHINUS MACCLELLANDI. {OateS, Op. cit. i. 



p. 125.) 



This bird is not uncommon on the eastern ranges of North 

 Cachar, where I have often found its nest. This does not 

 diifer at all from that of P. erythrogenys, though, probably 

 from being the most handy materials, it is nearly always 

 built mainly of bamboo-leaves and coarse grasses ; other 

 materials, such as ferns, roots, &c., being less easy to obtain, 

 are not used to so great an extent. The eggs, three or four 

 in number, are not, I think, typically so long or drawn out 

 as the majority of Pomatorhine eggs. The fourteen I have 

 taken measure V'09 by 0"'76, and I think, in addition to 

 being shorter than most eggs of the genus, the shell is 

 perhaps rather stronger and also slightly less glossy. They 

 breed in much the same sort of places as P. pliayrii, but 

 their nests are always placed on, or almost on, the ground. 

 The favourite place, undoubtedly, seems to be the base of 



