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The eggs are halmon-tolourcd, witli a few darker red specks and 

 (spots. The nests v\e t'ouiid were made entirely of dead piue-leaves 

 beautifully woven together. Elevation 0000 feet." 



Colonel G. F. L. Marshall writes: — "A nest with lialf-iledged 

 found at Naini Tal on the lird June was in a hole at the root of a 

 tree on a grassy slope close to a frequented road, from w hich it 

 was quite visible. The male bird was sitting. I could not see the 

 lining, as the young birds concealed it ; but the outer part seemed 

 rougnly built of moss, and cup-shaped." 



Mr. W. E. Brooks has recorded the following :—" On the L'Gth 

 of May 1 shot a female of this species at vMmorah, and close to 

 where she fell was a nest in a hole of an old retaining wall, o\(!r- 

 grown with grass. For hours the place was watched, but no bird 

 came near the partly-incubated eggs. Her breast was bare, as if 

 she had been sitting on eggs. The male 1 had also shot shortly 

 before the female. The nest was very 'J'hrush-like in form, and 

 was ])laced in just such a situation as would have been chosen by 

 a lling-Ouzel. It was comjjosed of fine twigs, roots, and coarse 

 grass, and lined with finer grass. The eggs were four in number, 

 O-'Jl by 0-G2 inch, of a pale buff or salmon-colour, finely mottled, 

 ])rincipally at the larger end, with very i)ale reddish brown. 

 Though they are not Thrush-like in colouring, being more like 

 those of a Eedbreast, 1 cannot believe that they belong to any 

 other bird." 



1 may note that J have one of the eggs thus found, and that 

 there is no possible doubt that it belongs to this species, of which 

 1 have now taken very many. 



Mr. Ji. 'J'hompsoji remarks: — "Jn .lune 1865 I found a nest 

 close to my house at Kooipalal, below IS'ynee Tal, with only one 

 young one. For the last two years the same ])air have constantly 

 ijred in the same place, making a fresh nest each year and bringing 

 up two and three young ones. This year the three young ones 

 remained with the parent birds for a considerable time. Many 

 young ones are taken at Almorah, where the natives prize them for 

 their song. They lay in May and June, building a circular cup- 

 BJiaped nest some 4\S inches in diameter, composed externally of 

 mosses and roots, internally of hairs and fine fibres, on the ground, 

 in a hole, either under a stump, a tuft of grass, or a stone. They 

 generally breed at elevations between 13000 and GOOO feet." 



Captain Cock long ago sent me the following note from Dhurum- 

 eala : — "Nidificates in May and June in the North-west Jlima- 

 layas. Nest is composed of moss at tlu! bottom, with layers of 

 coarse grass, fibres and roots, internally of liner grass-iibn; ; but it 

 is a loosely-put -together affair, aiul with a little handlijig soon 

 comes to pieces. It is a saucer-slia|)ed open nest, 4 inches in dia- 

 meter, generally placed on sonKs hank by the side of a road, rarent 

 bird fearless, soinelinuis choosing a very much frequented road, but 

 still their nests an- well concealed in some little niche of the bank. 

 The parent bird may he caught by the hand when fin her eggs. 

 Lays four eggs, f-almon ((iloui- or ImlT (caused l>v ti.e numerous 



