62 TURDID.B. 



found at the foot of Nwalabo mountain, in heavy forest, some 

 35 miles in an easterly direction from Tavoy." 



The eggs are very regular ovals, only just a little compressed and 

 pointed towards one end. The shell is very fine and fragile, and 

 has a fair amount of gloss. 



The ground-colour is white, with the faintest possible greenish 

 tinge, not noticeable until the egg is placed alongside of some other 

 really pure snow-white egg: as for markings, there is at the large 

 end a small cap composed of densely-crowded specks and spots of 

 brownish red or dingy pale raw sienna of varying shades and 

 intensity, and a few specks of the same scattered over the rest of 

 the egg, nowhere numerous, but much more sparse towards the 

 small end, where they are in some eggs absolutely wanting. In 

 amongst the markings of the cap a few pale reddish or lilac-purple 

 clouds, as a rule faint and dull, underlie the more conspicuous 

 brownish-red specklings. 



All the eggn are very similar in appearance and uniform in size, 

 and thev only vary in length from O84 to O87 inch, and in breadth 

 from 0-63 to Ob*7. 



633. Henicurus immaculatus, Hodgs. The Black-backed 

 Forktail. 



Enicurus immaculatus, Hodgs., Jerd. B. Ltd. ii ? p. 213 ; Hume, Cat. 



no. 585. 



A note I have on the nidification of this Forktail was sent me 

 by Mr. Gates, who writes : " I found the nest, with three fresh 

 eggs, on the 20th April, in a nullah on the eastern side of the 

 Pegu hills." 



A writer in the * Asian ' remarks : 



" The nest is like that of H. maculatus, but the eggs are much 

 smaller and are profusely marked throughout with dark reddish. 



"In this, as in the other Forktails, the tail of both sexes 

 becomes much frayed whilst the incubation of their eggs is in 

 progress. 



" It is much rarer than either of the two birds already men- 

 tioned, and keeps to small streams and paths in dense evergreen 

 forests. The usual note is rather softer than is the case with the 

 other birds of this genus." 



637. Microcichla scouleri (Vigors). The Little Forkta'd. 



Enicurus scouleri, Vigors, Jerd. B. 2nd. ii, p. 214 ; Hume, Rough 



Draft N. $ E. no. 587. 

 Enicurus nigrifrons, Hodgs., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 215. 



The only note that I have as yet received in regard to the nidi- 

 fication of the Little Forktail is from Mr. Brooks. He says : 

 " I noticed a pair of these birds between Batwari and Duugulla, 

 which appeared to have their nest in a very peculiar situation. 



