Nidification of Indian Birds. 337 



The diameters of the iuside are about 3i by 2^, and the 

 entrance^ which is very large in proportion, is about 2 

 inches. The eggs differed from those already described in 

 being less richly marked and in having no signs whatever 

 of a ring at the larger end, the spots being more equally 

 distributed over the whole surface of the shell. The four 

 average 0"-77xO"-585. 



Two othernests were exactly like the above in construction 

 and size, but one was placed in a very thin fork of a tiny 

 dead sapling, growing among ferns and caladiums, and, 

 being only about 3 feet from the ground, was quite hidden 

 by these. The other was placed in a bush, well in the 

 centre, in an upright fork, not in horizontal ones, like the 

 other two. There were two eggs in each of these nests. 

 Those in the first were rather more reddish and not quite so 

 profusely stippled; they measured 0""7xO"'52. Those in 

 the second nest were identically like the five first described, 

 but more regularly oval in shape ; they measured 0"*71 X (V'S-l 

 andO"-71xO"-53. 



A fourth nest was taken from among a thick tangle of 

 vines growing over a rocky bank. This nest A7as rather 

 more bulky than the others and not quite so tidy. It con- 

 tained five young ones. 



The texture of the eggs is very fine and close, and there is a 

 faint indication of a gloss, but it is not at all highly developed 

 in any of the eggs. They are stouter in proportion to their 

 size than are the eggs of Cyornis. 



49. Chelidorhynx hypoxanthus. [Oates, op. cit. ii. 

 p. 51.) 



I have had two nests brought to me as belonging to this 

 bird, but I have never personally found and taken one. Of 

 these two nests, I believe, both belonged to this little Fly- 

 catcher, but the eggs from the two nests differ so much that 

 one must be wrong, and I believe that those shown me in 

 the first nest had been taken from some other bird's nest 

 and placed in this one, whilst, judging from analogy, those 

 in the second nest do belong really to Chelidorhynx. 



