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of the following materials : — straw, grasses, moss, dead and 

 skeleton leaves^ feathers, and coir, and is thickly lined with 

 wool or hair. 



A nest taken in Peling (near Foocliovv) on the 13th May, 

 1897, measures : inner diameter about 3^ inches, inner 

 depth 1^; outer diameter 7, outer depth 25. It contained 

 three fresh eggs. Another, taken in the same locality on 

 the 16th May, 1897, had two fresh eggs. Both these 

 clutches were, of course, incomplete. A nest was taken at 

 Kuatun on the 15tli May, 1897, with five fresh eggs, and 

 one at Upper Kuatun on the 5th May, 1898, with four incu- 

 bated eggs. The inner diameter of this latter nest is a little 

 over 2J inches ; the inner depth is 2 inches. Two of the 

 eggs, taken in Peling on the 13th May, 1897, are greyish 

 white, so thickly speckled and streaked with pale brown 

 over grey underlying marks as almost to conceal the ground- 

 colour; their shap/C is a broad ovate. The third egg is 

 ovate, attenuated at both ends, and its markings are darker 

 and not so numerous. These eggs measure 0"80 x 0'60 (two) 

 and 0"78 X 0*60 inch. The clutch obtained at Kuatun on the 

 5th May, 1898, has a very different appearance. The ground- 

 colour is also greyish white, but the marks are of a darker 

 brown and of a violet-grey. The spots are fewer in number 

 and larger, and all four eggs have a cap, which in one egg 

 is very dark. These four eggs are ovate in shape and 

 measure 0-80 x 0-59, 0-80 x 0-58, 078 x 060, and 078 x 0-59 

 inch. 



65. Anthus maculatus (Hodgs.). 



Specimens were obtained at Kuatun on this and on pi-evious 

 trips. It no doubt winter's in the lower valleys. 



66. Anthus richardi Vieill. 



We have two skins of this Pipit, labelled Kuatun, 1st and 

 5th May, 1897. 



Q>7 . LiMONIDROMUS INDICUS (Gm.). 



A single specimen was shot in a pine-wood in the valley 

 below Kuatun on the 20th April, 1898. It is a male : iris 

 brown; upper mandible blackish; lower mandible pinkish, 



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