unfigured Eggs of Pahearctic Birds. 487 



is constructed of fine grass and slender strips of bark. 

 According to Mr. Oates, some nests contain no extraneous 

 matter, but others have ail kinds of odds and ends — scraps 

 of newspaper and cloth, shavings, rags, snake-skins, and 

 threads — woven into the exterior, while the interior is 

 always neatly lined with fine grass-stems. The fabric varies 

 a good deal in size. 



The eggs, usually numbering three or four in a clutch, 

 though sometimes only two, are of a glossy white, suffused 

 with delicate salmon-pink when fresh and unblown, and 

 somewhat sparingly spotted and blotched, chiefly at the 

 larger end, with black ; they closely resemble those of Oriolus 

 galbula. They vary, according to Mr. Oates, in length from 

 103 to 1-32, in breadth from 075 to 0-87 ; while the 

 average size of fifty eggs was I'll by 0"81 inch. 



The specimens figured were taken by Mr. William Jesse 

 near Lucknow in 1898. 



(4) Oriolus indicus. Black-naped Oriole. (PL X. 

 figs. 14, 17.) 



Oriolus indicus Dresser, Man. Pal. B. p. 228. 



This Oriole breeds in Dauria, the Ussuri country, and 

 Northern China, but I do not find any particulars on record 

 respecting its nidification, except that it agrees with Oriolus 

 galbula in the position and construction of its nest. 



The two eggs of this species now figured were obtained by 

 the brothers Dorries in Amoorland in 1889. 



(5) Cyanoptila cyanomel^ena. Japanese Blue Flycatcher. 

 (PI. X. figs. 5, 6.) 



Cyanoptila cyanomelcena Dresser, Man. Pal. B. p. 258. 



This Flycatcher breeds in Japan, and also, according to 

 Godlewski, in the Ussuri district, though he never succeeded 

 in finding its nest there. The nest is placed in a mossy 

 bank, and the eggs, usually five, but sometimes six in 

 number, are laid from early in May to the middle of July. 

 They vary but little, and are greyish white with very faint 

 darker markings, chiefly at the larger end. The specimens 

 in my collection average 076 by - 64 inch in dimensions. 



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