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found in the latter. Its tunnels are seldom of any great depth, 

 unless the interior of the tree is very rotten, being often only 

 a few inches long. 



Three is the normal number of eggs laid, sometimes only 

 two, but one clutch which I took in May, 1890, contained 

 four. The eggs are highly glossed and very stout, the 

 principal thing about them being their small size when com- 

 pared with the bird itself. On the average they are very 

 little larger than the eggs of Gecinus occipitalis, a much 

 smaller bird, and they cannot be distinguished from them, 

 though, taking a large series of both, those of C. flavinuclia 

 may not be quite so long or so pointed. 



Twenty-four eggs average 1"'23 x 0"*92, and they vary in 

 length between l"-09 and 1"*40, and in breadth between 0"-80 

 and 1"'02. They are normally broad ovals, a good deal 

 compressed towards the small end, which is rather pointed. 

 Abnormal eggs tend to be longer and more pointed, rarely 

 to be of the broad peg-top shape. 



60. Gecinulus GRANTiiE. {Blauford, op. cit. iii. p. 30.) 

 I have taken only three nests of this bird, and of these 

 three I have kept notes about only one, which I found at 

 Gunjong, the headquarters of my subdivision, within about 

 half a mile of my bungalow. This nest was placed in a dead, 

 extremely rotten stump of a tree, standing in jungle com- 

 posed entirely of the small solitary bamboo, a few dead trees, 

 which stood here and there, showing that the land had once 

 been forest, but had been cleared for cultivation. The 

 burrow, which was some 12 feet from the ground, looked 

 very like a natural one, merely finished off a little bit round 

 the edges by the birds. It just pierced through about 3 

 inches or less of rotten bark, and then led into a large 

 natural hollow, about a foot in diameter and rather less in 

 depth. It contained three eggs, broad ovals, rather com- 

 pressed towards the smaller end, but not very pointed. The 

 texture is similar to that of the eggs of G. occipitalis. The 

 eggs measure l"-05xG"-74, l"-04x0"-77, and l"-02xO"-76. 

 This nest was taken on the 20th May, 1892. 



