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last year near Colombo. One was built on the topmost branch of 

 a young jack-tree about 40 feet high. It was very small and 

 shallow, measuring 2-8 inches in breadth and only 0-8 inch in 

 depth, and the old bird could be seen plainly from beneath sitting 

 across it. The other was situated on the top of a tree about 

 20 feet from the ground, and was built in the same manner. The 

 materials are not mentioned.'' 



I have only seen two eggs of this species, sent me with the nest 

 and parent bird by Mr. E. E. Blewitt. They are oval eggs, 

 moderately broad and obtuse at both ends, about the same size as 

 average eggs of Lanius vittatus. They are slightly glossy, have a 

 pale greenish-white ground, and are thickly blotched and streaked 

 throughout, but most densely so towards the large end, with some- 

 what pale brown, much the same colour as the markings on typical 

 eggs of L. eryihronotus. They measure 0-85 inch in length by 

 0-65 and 0-68 inch in breadth respectively. Other eggs since 

 received from Calcutta and Mysore measure from 0*87 to 0*81 in 

 length, and from 0'68 to 0-62 in breadth. 



509. Campophaga terat (Bodd.) *. The Pied Cuckoo-Shrike. 

 Lalage terat (Bodd.}, Hume, Cat. no. 269 ter. 



The eggs are quite of the Graucalus and Oampophaga type, but 

 perhaps a little more elongated in shape. Very regular, slightly 

 elongated ovals, with scarcely any gloss on them, the ground 

 greenish white, but everywhere thickly streaked and mottled and 

 freckled over, most thickly about the large end, with a dull pale 

 slightly olivaceous brown intermingled with brownish, or in some 

 specimens faintly purplish grey. The two eggs I possess measure 

 0-85 and 0'87 in length, by 0'61 and 0-62 respectively in breadth. 



510. Graucalus macii, Lesson. The Large Cuckoo-Shrike. 



Graucalus macei, Less., Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 417 ; Hume, Rough Draft 

 N. SfE. no. 270. 



My friend Mr. F. E/. Blewitt seems to be the only ornithologist 

 who has taken many nests of the Large Grey Cuckoo-Shrike. I 

 never was so fortunate as to find one. He says : " This Shrike 

 begins to pair about May, and in June the work of nidificatiou 

 commences. The place selected for the nest is the most lofty 

 branch of a tree, and is built near the fork of two outlying twigs. 

 If this bird has a preference it would appear to be for mango and 

 inovAa trees, on W 7 hich I found most of the nests. The nest is in 

 form circular, and its exterior is somewhat thickly made; the 



* I cannot find any note among Mr. Hume's papers regarding the discovery 

 of the nest of this bird. The nest may possibly have been found at Camorta 

 (Nkobar Islands), where this species is not uncommon. ED. 



