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with the addition of a little horsehair. It is usually placed at the 

 point where three or four twigs spring from the branch, and these 

 are completely incorporated into the sides of the nest, the materials 

 of which entirely envelope them, so that they appear protruding 

 from, or through, the sides of the light and graceful fabric. They 

 differ somewhat in point of size, some being rather larger and more 

 open than others." 



Mr. Brooks writes : " Common in the villages about Almorah, 

 seldom coming up to the elevation of the town itself. I have two 

 males shot off the nest in the chestnut plumage. The nest is a 

 neat cup-shaped one, fixed to a thin branch of a tree by means of 

 fine grass and spiders' webs. It is composed of moss, fibres, and 

 crass, and covered thickly outside with spiders' web. The internal 

 diameter of the nest is about "2 inches, and it is lined with fine 

 grass. The bottom of the nest now described rests on a small twig 

 growing out of the thin branch to which the nest is bound. 

 Number of eggs, three ; 9| lines long by 7j lines broad, of a buffy 

 white ground-colour, or more properly buff, sparingly spotted with 

 reddish brown and purplish grey, tending to form a zone at the 

 larger end in nearly every instance. 



" It lays in Kumaon in the third week in May." 



Dr. Scully, writing from Nepal, observes : " In the valley it 

 breeds in May and June, both sexes sharing in the incubation and 

 feeding of the young. Many nests of this species were seen and 

 taken in woods and gardens, but the account given in ' Nests and 

 Eggs ' is so complete that I need not take up space here by enter- 

 ing into long descriptions ; I must note, however, that although 

 the usual number of eggs laid is four, I have twice met with five 

 eggs in a nest." 



From Murree Colonel C. H. T. Marshall reports : " We took 

 ten nests in May, June, and July. The female was in all instances 

 chestnut, with a white breast and short tail. This is one of the 

 commonest nests to be got about Murree. Average elevation 

 5000 feet." 



Dr. Henderson says : " The Paradise Flycatcher was very 

 abundant in Kashmir. Two nests were found, both on the forks 

 of trees one on an apple-tree, the other on a mulberry-tree, and 

 high up in small branches. There was a single egg in one nest, 

 and in the other four. The nests were made of very fine hair-like 

 strips of mulberry-bark, with grass, moss, and cobwebs outside." 



Major "Wardlaw Ramsay says, writing of Afghanistan: "Among 

 the orchards at Shalofyan, in the Kurrum valley, it is especially 

 abundant. I found it there in June, evidently breeding." 



In Eajputana, Lieut. Barnes informs us that " the only nest of 

 the Paradise Flycatcher that I found was in June and it was not 

 quite finished. I sent a shikaree a week later to examine it, when 

 it contained a single egg, which he brought in." 



Professor Littledale, writing about the birds of Baroda, says : 

 " The Paradise Flycatcher is very common here during the rains, 

 when it breeds. In all instances, except one out of nine nests that 



