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ground with reddish-brown and russet spots ; (b) greenish 

 ground with greenish and yellowish-brown markings ; but on 

 April 4th I took three eggs from a tree in ray own compound 

 which were of a pa!e yellowish green, absolutely unspotted. 

 I had continually watched the bird on this nest for some 

 days and had seen her fly off when the eggs weie taken, or I 

 should have had my doubts as to their parentage. This 

 clutch has now given me a regular series, showing all the 

 various shades of colour and markings that the eggs of this 

 Tree-pie possess. 



Pyctorhis sinensis. Yellow-eyed Babbler. 



On July 29th Mr. Sutton Davies, of the East Lancashire 

 Regiment, and I found five hard-set eggs of this bird. 



As I did not think that these eggs had been previously 

 recorded from Lucknow, I was very anxious to get the bird, 

 but though we waited till it was dark, and continually caught 

 glimpses of lier, we could never get a shot in the dense 

 jungle. I do not think, however, that there can be any 

 reasonable doubt as to the parentage of these eggs, as, apart 

 from the short glimpses which we caught of the bird, there 

 is, to my knowledge, no other species in this part of India to 

 which the nest and eggs could have belonged. The former 

 was a deep inverted cone lined inside with grass and plastered 

 outside with spiders^ webs, and the -whole structure was 

 firmly fastened to the long stalk of patowal grass. The 

 eggs were most lovely, being of a pinkish- white ground 

 thickly blotched with various shades of blood-red and 

 carmine. 



CopsYCHUs SAULARis. Magpic-Robiu. 



Hind. [Lucknow] : Dayat. 



This bird, which about here generally breeds in June and 

 July, usually lays four, sometimes five eggs, but on June 16th 

 I found a hen bird sitting on a pile of no fewer than nine 

 eggs. These were placed in the usual nest in a hole of a 

 gula-tree some 20 feet from the ground, and while some were 

 fresh, others were stale, two slightly set, and one almost 

 dried up. Possibly they were the product of two hens ; but, 

 though I waited, I saw only one pair of birds. 



