340 TROGONID^. 



Other eggs of this species have been since sent me from Sikhim, 

 where they were taken in July by Mr. Mandelli. They were taken 

 from a hole scooped on the top of a truncated tree ; a bare hole 

 devoid of lining. This was in one of the low valleys below 

 Darjeeling. 



These eggs are also broad ovals, M'hite, but with a decided creamy 

 tinge, the shell very fine, and with a considerable amount of gloss. 

 Three eggs vi^ere found, two of them measure 1"07 and 1*13, both 

 by 0-93. 



Thus, while H. liodgsoni lays four nearly pure white eggs, H. 

 oreslios would seem to lay only two or three, and these of a very 

 decided though pale cafe-cm-lait colour. The eggs of the latter 

 are, as might have been expected, smaller, but both species lay 

 normally very broad, oval glossy eggs. 



Mr. Gates records the following note from Pegu : — " On the 

 8th May a female of this species flew from the top of a dead trunk 

 of a tree, about 20 feet high, as I was passing through the forest 

 at the Entagan Bungalow, twehe miles from Pegu. A man, on 

 being sent up, reported that there were three eggs resting on the 

 bare wood in a cavity at the top of the stump. In about a quarter 

 of an hour the bird returned and began sitting, I started her off 

 and shot her. The eggs were then brought down to me. 



" In shape the eggs are nearly spherical, and in texture the shell 

 is smooth to the touch and tolerably glossy. The colour of all is a 

 pale buff or cafc-au-lait. They are in fact of precisely the same 

 colour as the eggs of H, oresl-ios, with which Major Bingham has 

 lately kindly fa\'Oured me. In size and shape they, however, 

 differ very conspicuously, the dimensions of the three eggs of H. 

 Iiodqsoni being respectivelv 1"1 by 0*98, 1-08 by 1, and 1"1 by 



1-oi." 



Major C. T. Bingham says, writing from Tenasserim : — "On 

 the lith March I found a nest of this bird containing two eggs, 

 almost pure white, blunt oval in shape, and one of which measured 

 1'08 by 0-9. The nest was in the head of a stump leaning over 

 the Queebawchoung (a feeder of the Meplay) at its sources, and 

 consisted merely of a little hollow dug out of t]\e rotten \A'ood at 

 the top at a height of about 8 feet from the ground. A Karen 

 ^\•ho was with mo managed to catch the female alive with his hand 

 as she sat on her nest, but unfortunately broke one of the eggs." 



An e^g of this species taken by Major Bingham is precisely 

 like those taken by Mr. Gammie, broad oval, very glossy, and 

 nearly ]oure \\'hite. 



Harpactes fasciatus (Forst.). Tlie Malabar Trofjon. 



Harpactes fasciatus {Gm.), Jcrd. B. Ind. i, p. 201 ; Hume, Cat. 

 no. 115. 



Writing on the 15th April from South Travancore, Mr, F. 

 Fulton Bourdillon says : — " I Mas so fortunate as to obtain a nest 



