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dimensions of any value. At the end of July^ 1887, I took 

 a nest containing two young birds. This was of the same 

 shape as that already described, but was attached to the 

 lower side of a leaf of a stunted wild plantain. In measure- 

 ment externally it was 4""1 across and slightly less deep; 

 the walls were very thick and compact, being about 0"'4 at 

 the rim, 0"'6 just below, and almost an inch at the bottom. 

 The materials consisted of skeleton leaves and very fine soft 

 grass, and a few shreds of the outer bark of ekra; the lining 

 was a mass of vegetable down most beautifully matted close 

 to the bottom and walls of the nest. 



In August, 1890, I took another nest, and a third on 

 Sept. the 7th of the same year. Both of these in general 

 construction closely resembled the last, but they were more 

 oval in shape, the leaves to which they were attached forming 

 more a back than a roof to the nest. The longest diameters 

 of these nests were very nearly 5^ inches. 



In 1891-92 I took no nests myself, but received three 

 from a friend in Silchar, who also sent me the hen birds 

 with two of them. Two of these nests had been fastened to 

 large tannah-leaves, but I was not informed as to how the 

 other was placed. They were just like those found by myself, 

 having nearly three-quarters of the rim attached to the leaf. 



In a deserted nest, which I found in 1887, tlie whole of 

 the rim is fastened to tlie covering leaf, and the entrance is 

 entirely surrounded by material. 



In 1893 I took three more nests, built just like those 

 already described. Two were fastened to the leaves of plants 

 only a few feet high, the third to a plantain-leaf about 6 feet 

 from the ground. 



With the exception of one nest taken in May, 1893, and 

 one on the 3rd June, 1892, all my nests have been taken in 

 July, August, and September. That sent me from Dar- 

 jeeling contained eggs, which had been laid about the end of 

 April. 



In the Bombay Natural History Society^s Journal, no. 3, 

 1891, there are some interesting notes on the nidification of 

 this species, which show that the western birds build far larger 



