4 MrsciCAriD.T:. 



excessively finely freckled, ami in inai\y cases unifonnly tinted, 

 with reddish cafe au hiit colour or pale salmou-buft' ; in manv eggs 

 the colour is deeper and redder at the large end, forming an un- 

 defined cap. Some of the eggs have a slight gloss, others are 

 absolutely glossless. 



These eggs are very similar in lint to those of Stojuxrola and 

 other genera of this family. 



In length they vary from 0-i')S to 0"G9 inch and in breadth from 

 0'47 to 0'r> inch ; but the average of ti-u eggs is 0'G2 inch by a 

 little more than OMS inch. 



5(38. Cyornis superciliaris (Jerd.). T/ic Whiti'-hroired 

 Blue Fit/catcher. 



^ruscioapula superriliaris (Jerd.), Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. -170; J fume, 



li.,U(i/i Drtift y. >.y E. no. 310. 

 Mnscicapula acornaus, Ilodys., Jerd. torn. cit. p. 4b."!. 



The White-browed Blue Elycatcher, though extending its cold- 

 weather migration far into Southern India, breeds only, so far as 

 I liave yet aseertainetl, in the Himalayas at elevations of from 5000 

 to nearly 10,tiO() feet ; from Darjeeling to Murree it breeds every- 

 where, not only in the outer ranges, but far into the interior. I 

 found a nest only a march south of Gungootree ; I have received 

 others from the Sutlej Valley above Chini, from Minalee close to 

 the foot of the Rotung, from the Siud Valley, Cashmere, just at 

 the foot of the Zojee La. and I know of owf^ being found at Dras. 

 They lay from the middle of April to the middle of June, building 

 a small cup-shaped nest, about ;? inches in diameter, of moss and 

 moss-roots, and lined with these latter and at times a little fine hair, 

 in holes of trees or even occasionally between two stones of the 

 terraced Mall of some fallov\- or deserted field. 



They lay from four to six eggs. The late Captain Beavan cor- 

 rectly remarked that this species was ''not at all rare about Siuila, 

 in gardens and forest-glades, and not at all sliy. I discoven-d tlie 

 nest of this species on the lOth of May at tiiat station, with four 

 young ones in it. It is a pretty little cup-shaped structure, com- 

 posed of moss and hair, placed at the bottom of a small hole in an 

 ilex, at no great depth inside." 



Writing from Murree, Colonel C. H. T. Marshall notes having 

 secured " sixteen or eighteen nests between the beginning of May 

 and the end of June, in small holes in rotten branches or trunks 

 of trees, sometimes close to the ground, sometimes very high up. 

 Eggs, five in number, of a yellowish-brown colour, almost round, 

 about •() inch long and •-15 broad. The general elevation averages 

 6500 feet : they do not build in the lower hills." 



Colonel G. F. L. ^Marshall remarks : — " This Flycati-her is not 

 A^ery common at Naini Tal, and 1 l-.ave only once found the nest ; 

 it contained two eggs on the 25th of jNIay. It was a small cup 

 built of moss. liiii'd with horsehair, and wedged into a narn)w 



