200 Mr. J. D. D. La Touclie on the 



from the base of the nest. The outer width at the base o£ 

 the aperture is about 5 inches, the depth from the same place 

 to the back of the nest about 4j inches. The inner diameter 

 is 2^ inches^ and the depth of the egg-cavity ]^ inch. 

 This nest was set upright on some bent bamboos that had 

 been pushed aside when the path was cut, and was also 

 supported by a straight-growing bamboo, on the top of which 

 it rested. There were three bght olive-green eggs. 



On the 18th May, another nest, with three fresh eggs, 

 resembling the nest just described, but with no black fibre 

 lining to the dome, was found by our Kuatun hunters. The 

 parent birds were not seen by the hunters, but there is 

 no doubt as to the ownership of the nest. It measures 

 exteriorly 6^ inches in length, about 5 inches in width, and 

 about 44 inches in depth at the base of the entrance, which 

 is about 1^ inch high by 2^ inches wide. The inside 

 measurements are : diameter 2^ inches, depth of egg-cavity 

 1^ inch, total height inside about 3i inches. 



The remains of a nest, with three olive-green eggs and one 

 of a greenish-blue capped with a thick freckling of reddish 

 brown, were brought by our men from Kuatun in 1897. 

 This nest was taken on the 25th May, in the same forest and 

 on the same small bamboos ; but our collectors cou.ld not 

 secure the parent birds, and we had, until now, remained in 

 ignorance as to its identity. It is quite evident that these 

 are also the nest and eggs of B. Carolines. The fourth eg^ 

 is probably that of a Cuckoo, 



The eggs taken on the 11th of May are light olive- 

 green, indistinctly freckled with a shade of brownish slightly 

 darker than the ground-colour, and forming a small cap on 

 two of the eggs. The texture is like that of the eggs of 

 B. sinensis, but there is a decided gloss. The shape of two 

 of the eggs is an attenuated ovate, approaching a long oval, 

 and the third egg is more oval, still narrower, and more 

 elongated at both ends. They measure 0-87 X 0-57, 0-86 X 

 0-59, and 0*86 X 058 inch. The eggs taken on the 16th 

 May are similar in colour. The four eggs obtained last 

 year are nearly oval, with blunt rounded ends ; three are 



