332 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker on the 



often perceptible in the eggs of the Pericrocoti ; the ground- 

 colour is of the normal pale stone-colour, almost white. 

 The egg measures 0"'89x0"50j and will, undoubtedly, prove 

 to be an abnormally large one. 



45. Oriolus iNDicus. {Oates, op. cit. i. p. 502.) 



I have taken two nests of this Oriole, both of the ordinary 

 cradle-shape and quite undistinguishable from those of 0. me- 

 lanocephalus and 0. kundoo. Both were built in masses of 

 creepers growing over oaks, which stood in thin forest com- 

 posed of that species of tree, and both were at a very great 

 height from the ground, and were only got at after much 

 time and trouble had been spent over them. 



The eggs, of which there were two in each nest, are of the 

 usual Oriole type ; three have a decidedly pink ground, 

 perhaps rather darker than in most eggs of this genus, and 

 are spotted in the ordinary way with rather dark reddish 

 brown. The fourth egg differs only in being rather paler 

 and being rather more sparingly, though boldly, blotched 

 with a still darker brown. Two of the eggs measure l"'09x 

 0"-76 and l"-05 x()"-79. The other two eggs I presented to 

 the Asiatic Museum, Calcutta, without measuring them 

 before doing so, but they were, if I remember rightly, both 

 larger and longer than those I retained for my own col- 

 lection. 



This species is not very rare here in December, January, 

 and February, but, with the exceptions of the birds belonging 

 to the two above-mentioned nests, 1 have never seen any 

 during the other nine mouths of the year. 



46. Oriolus tenuirostris. [Gates, op. cit. i. p. 503.) 

 1 have never seen a nest of the Burmese Black-naped 

 Oriole, but I once had two eggs and portions of a skin of the 

 parent bird brought to me by one of my collectors in Silchar. 

 They are, for Oriole's eggs, unusually small, measuring only 

 1"-01 X 0"-74 and 0"-98 X 0"-73. The shape also is not com- 

 mon, being a broad blunt oval, slightly broader in one than 

 the other. The ground-colour is a very faint, pinkish white, 

 and they are boldly marked with rather light reddish-brown 



