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pure wliite^ and the markings consist of specks^ spots^ and 

 tiny blotches of rusty red, these being almost non-existent 

 at the smaller end and sparse elsewhere, except in a dense 

 ring at the larger end. There are no real subordinate marks, 

 though a few of the blotches are rather pale and grey in 

 tint. They are rather broad, blunt ovals, very slightly com- 

 pressed towards the smaller end. The texture is smooth and 

 close, but glossless and rather chalky. They measure 0""77 

 x0"-59 and 0"- 76 xG"-58. 



The nest was a globular structure of grass, leaves, and a 

 few ragged old bamboo-leaves, neither very neatly nor-^very 

 compactly put together, and lined with very tine grass-stems. 

 Outwardly it measured some 6 inches in its longest diameter 

 by about 4^ in breadth, the chamber being rather less than 

 H by 2i. 



The same day as that on which the first nest was taken 

 another, together with one of the parent birds, was brought 

 to me by a small Naga boy, who said he had found it placed 

 in a hollow amongst a number of loose stones lying close to 

 the roadway, but well sheltered by thick bush-jungle. The 

 nest does not appear to have differed in any way from the 

 one just described, and it must have been very much the 

 same in size, though, having been considerably pulled about, 

 it was not possible to measure it. It contained four hard- 

 set eggs, much like the two in the nest first taken, but rather 

 more profusely spotted and with the ring at the larger end 

 rather less distinctly defined. They measure 0"'72x0"56, 

 0"-71 xO"-57, 0"-71 x0"-56, and 0"-69x0"-57. 



A third nest brought to me at another place, some 2000 

 feet lower elevation, contained four young ones, and a fourth, 

 taken the following day. May the 8th, contained four eggs 

 just on the point of hatching and quite uublowable. This 

 last nest is a shade more compact than the three others, and, 

 in addition to the bamboo-leaves and broad grass-blades, 

 which form the principal materials used, there are a few 

 other dead leaves wound into the base and back. The lining 

 of grass-stems is also very thick. In size it is about 6^ 

 inches perpendicularly and about 5 inches horizontally across. 



