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gave up hope of getting help from him. The same boy, however, 
led us to two nests which undoubtedly belonged to birds of this 
species. The first nest was well hidden among ferns on a gently 
sloping hillside and was on the ground. It is composed for the 
most part of dry moss; the uphill side is thin and has a few lichens 
mixed with moss; a few dry grass stems also enter into its com- 
position, but the glutinous substance is almost entirely wanting. 
Depth, inside, 1 inch; outside, 2 inches; diameter, inside, 14 by 2; 
outside, 2 by 3. The two white eggs were slightly incubated and 
measure 0.88 by 0.55 and 0.85 by 0.55, respectively. 
The second nest, situated about 200 yards from the first, was 
similarly placed beneath weeds and ferns. This nest is composed 
of the hchen Usnea. The outer rim is well-rounded and along the 
uphill side is a considerable patch of the characteristic glutinous 
material. The outside diameter is 3 inches; inside, 24; outside 
depth, 1.00; inside depth but little less, as the bottom is very thin. 
This nest held two well-fledged young. Both nests were collected 
May 19, 1903. 
SALANGANA WHITEHEADI (Grant). 
Whitehead’s swift was fairly abundant in the vicinity of our 
Irisan, Benguet camp, where a nesting colony of forty to fifty pairs 
was discovered in a waterworn cave. On May 21 a few fresh to 
heavily incubated eggs were found, but most of the nests held 
young, some of which were able to fly. The nest figured on Plate 
X contained two fresh eggs and is typical; its base is composed of 
dirty dead moss; the rim and inside are of moss, which was bright 
green when the nest was collected; the whole nest is compact and 
well glued together, but there are no masses of the glutinous 
material that are of commercial value. This nest is 2 inches in 
outside diameter and the inside depth is half an inch; the walls 
and bottom are about half an inch in thickness, so that the nest 
has somewhat the shape of a very thick individual butter dish. 
The pure white eggs were fresh and measure, respectively, 0.88 by 
0.55 and 0.93 by 0.56. They are figured on Plate ITI. 
STURNIA SINENSIS (Gm.); McGregor, Bull. Phil. Mus., No. 4, 
p. 24. ; 
Our Calayan specimen of this species has been examined by 
Dr. Richmond, who sends me the following: “Oates says (Fauna 
Brit. India, Bds., I, p. 526, 1889), ‘some time after the molt the 
