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and vegetable fibres, and lined inside with fine roots. It lays 

 four eggs, one of which is figured as a broad oval, a good deal 

 pointed towards one end, with a pale stone-coloured ground 

 freckled and mottled all over with sepia-brown, and measuring 1*27 

 by 0-89. 



Mr. Gates writes : " In the Pegu Hills on the 19th April I 

 found the nest of the Green Magpie, and shot the female off it. 



" The nest was placed in a small tree, about 20 feet from the 

 ground, in a nullah and well exposed to view. The nest was 

 neatly built, exteriorly of leaves and coarse roots, and finished off 

 interiorly with finer fibres and roots ; depth about 2 inches ; inside 

 diameter 6 inches. Contained three eggs nearly hatched ; all got 

 broken ; I have the fragments of one. The ground-colour is 

 greenish white, much spotted and freckled with pale yellowish- 

 brown spots and dashes, more so at the larger end than elsewhere." 



Sundry fragments that reached me, kindly sent to me by Mr. 

 Gates, had a dull white ground, very thickly freckled and mottled 

 all over, as far as I could judge, with dull, pale, yellowish brown 

 and purplish grey, the former preponderating greatly. As to size 

 and shape, this deponent sayeth nought. 



Major Bingham writes from Tenasserim : " On the 18th April 

 I found a nest of this most lovely bird placed at a height of 5 feet 

 from the ground in the fork of a bamboo-bush. It was a broad, 

 massive, and rather shallow cup of twigs, roots, and bamboo-leaves 

 outside, and lined with finer roots. It contained three eggs of a 

 pale greenish stone-colour, thickly and very minutely speckled with 

 brown, which tend to coalesce and form a cap at the larger end. 

 I shot the female as she flew off the nest." 



Major Bingham subsequently found another nest in Tenasserim, 

 about which he says : 



" Crossing the Wananatchoung, a little tributary of the Thoun- 

 gyeen, by the highroad leading from Meeawuddy to the sources 

 of the Thoungyeen, I found in a small thorny tree on the 8th 

 April a nest of the above bird a great, firmly-built but shallow 

 saucer of twigs, 6 feet or so above the ground, and lined with fine 

 black roots. It contained three fresh eggs of a dingy greyish 

 white, thickly speckled chiefly at the large end, where it forms a 

 cip, with light purplish brown. The eggs measure 1-25 x 0-89, 

 1-18x0-92, and 1-20 x 0-90." 



Mr. James Inglis notes from Cachar : " This Jay is rather rare ; 

 it frequents low quiet jungle. In April last a Kuki brought me 

 three joung ones he had taken from a nest in a clump of tree- 

 jungle ; he said the nest was some 20 feet from the ground and 

 made of bamboo-leaves and grass." 



A nest of this species taken below Tendong in Native Sikhim, 

 on the 28th April, contained four fresh eggs. It was placed on 

 the branches of a medium-sized tree at a height of about 12 feet 

 from the ground ; it was a large oval saucer, 8 inches by 6, and 

 about 2-5 in depth, composed mainly of dry bamboo-leaves, bound 

 firmly together with fine stems of creepers, and was lined with 



