44 COEVID^). 



GampsorTiyncTius rufulus. Rather curious that the two Bed-heads 

 should affect each other's society." 



The eggs are broad ovals, rather cylindrical, very blunt at both 

 ends. The shell fine, with a slight gloss. The ground is white, 

 and it is rather thinly and irregularly spotted, blotched, and 

 smeared in patches with a dingy yellowish brown, chiefly about 

 the larger end, to which also are nearly confined the secondary 

 markings, which are pale greyish lilac or purplish grey. 



61. Scseorhynchus gularis (Horsf.). The Hoary-headed Crow-Tit. 

 Paradoxornis gularis, Horsf. , Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 5. 



A nest sent me by Mr. Mandelli as belonging to this species was 

 found, he tells me, at an elevation of 8000 feet in Native Sikhim 

 on the 17th May. It was placed in a fork amongst the branches 

 of a medium-sized tree at a height of about 30 feet from the 

 ground. The nest is a very massive cup, composed of soft grass- 

 blades, none of them much exceeding ! inch in width, wound round 

 and round together very closely and compactly, and then tied over 

 exteriorly everywhere, but not thickly, with just enough wool and 

 wild silk to keep the nest perfectly strong and firm. Inside, the 

 nest is lined with extremely fine grass-stems ; the nest is barely 

 4 inches in diameter exteriorly and 2'5 in height ; the egg-cavity is 

 2'4 in diameter and 1*2 in depth. 



Mr. Mandelli sends me an egg which he considers to belong to 

 this species, found near Darjeeling on the 7th May. It is a broad 

 oval, very slightly compressed at one end; the shell dull and 

 glossless ; the ground a dead white, profusely streaked and smudged 

 pretty thickly all over with pale yellowish brown ; the whole 

 bigger end of the egg clouded with dull inky purple and two or 

 three hair-lines of burnt sienna in different parts of the egg. The 

 egg measures 0'8 by 0*61 . 



Two eggs of this species, procured in Sikhini on the 17th May, 

 are very regular ovals, scarcely at all pointed towards the lesser 

 end. The ground-colour is creamy white, and the markings con- 

 sist of large indistinct blotches of pale yellow ; round the large 

 end is an almost confluent zone or cap of purplish grey, darker in 

 one egg ; they have no gloss, and both measure 0-82 by 0'61. 



