UROCISSA, 43 
Nidification. Similar to that of oceipitalis, but the eggs are 
quite different. The ground-colour seems always to be a very 
pale salmon or pink stone-colour and the marks consist of light 
reddish blotches and freckles over the whole surface, with 
numerous others underlying them of pale neutral tint. Eggs 
taken by Col. Bingham and by Messrs. Hopwood, Mackenzie and 
Harington were all of this description and I have seen none ot 
oceipitalis anything like them. The full clutch numbers three to 
Six. 
The breeding season is March to April in Lower Burma, April 
and May in Upper Burma. 
Habits. This bird is said to come right down into the plains 
in winter and even to breed at very low elevations. In Assam 
and Northern Burma it keeps to the higher ranges and is seldom 
found below 5,000 feet. 
They are said to keep much to the deciduous forests in Burma, 
but in Assam haunt rhododendron, oak and mixed evergreen 
forests. 
Urocissa flavirostris. 
hey to Subspecies. 
A. Under parts a rather dark lilac.......... U. t. flavirostris, p. 43. 
B. Under parts almost pure white .......... U. f. cucullata, p. 44. 
22) Urocissa flavirostris flavirostris. 
THe YELLOW-BILLED MAGpPIt. 
Psilorhinus flavirosiris Blyth, J. A.S. B., xv, p. 28 (1846) (Darjeeling). 
Uroeissa flavirostris. .Blanf. & Oates, 1, p. 27. 
Vernacular names. Zying-jongriny (Lepcha); Pianging-jabring | 
(Bhutea). 
Description. Head, neck and breast black, the nape white and 
the feathers of the crown tipped white; back, scapulars, rump 
and upper tail-coverts purplish ashy, the last tipped black and 
with a narrow pale band in front of the black ; wing-coverts, the 
outer webs of the primaries and outer secondaries and the whole 
of the inner secondaries purplish blue; all the quills tipped 
white, the earlier primaries whitish on the terminal half of the 
outer web; tail blue with a broad white tip and all but the 
central pair of feathers with a subterminal black band; lower 
plumage from the breast downwards lilac tinged with purple. 
Colours of soft parts. Iris bright yellow; bill pale wax- 
yellow to a strong wax-yellow; legs and feet bright orange-yellow. 
Measurements. Length about 630 to 650 mm.; wing from 
178 to 190 mm.; tail up to 470 mm.; culmen about 65 mm. 
‘The female is similar to the male but generally smaller, wing 
170 to 180 mm. and the iris is a dull blue-brown. 
