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



and globular. They measure 0*65 x 0-51, 0-62 X 0-51, and 

 0'60x0'51 inch. The texture of all these eggs is smooth 

 and glossy, and, when seen through a lens, very finely 

 sliagreened. 



77. BucHANGA LEUCOGENYS Walden. 



A pair seen on the 5th May at Kuatun, 



78. Chibia hottentotta (Linn.). 



I have a specimen labelled Kuatun, 27th April, 1897, 

 and another obtained in the same neighbourhood on the 

 30th September, 1896. 



79. Campophaga melanoptera (Riipp.). 



We have no skins from Kuatun, but specimens were shot 

 on the 5th May, 1896, in the Kienyang district. 



80. Pericrocotus griseigularis Gould. 



This pretty Minivet is abundant from March to November 

 in the Kuatun Mountains. One or two were shot in the 

 village during our stay ; they were in company with other 

 small birds. 



A young male, dated Kuatun, 17th September, 1896, has 

 a few nestling- feathers on the head. These are light brownish 

 grey, with subterminal dark border and white edge. A 

 single feather on the shoulder has also these dark and light 

 bars, and a feather of the upper tail-coverts has a black 

 subterminal edge, with a yellowish-green tip. Thus in the 

 nestling the head and upper back are barred with dark grey 

 and white, and the green lower back, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts are barred with black and light yellowish green. 



We have one nest of this species from Kuatun, taken by 

 our collectors on the 8th May, 1897. It was placed on the 

 branch of a pine-tree. It is a small cup, with thin sides, 

 made of a kind of filiform lichen, a few pine-needles, and a 

 kind of greenish flat lichen with finely scalloped edges, 

 reddish brown underneath, with hairy black roots. The nest 

 is completely plastered outside, and partly inside, with this 

 latter material, only a bit or two of moss being added, and 

 has in consequence a peculiar black-aud-green appearance. 

 It is bound and held together by cobwebs. The inner 



