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Letters, Ejctructs, and Notes. 



Sirs, — Whilst up the West iUver in Soutli China along 

 Avith Lieut. -Commander R. E. Vaughan, of II. M.S. 'Moor- 

 hen/ we took a nest of the lovely little Flowerpecker Dicaum 

 cruentatum, at How-lik, on August 19th^ 1906, with five 



Text-fio-. 10. 



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newlj-hatched young. The nest, of which I enclose a sketch 

 (text-fig. 10), is made of fine strips of the inner bark of trees, 

 with a few other fibres, and is bound together with the silky 

 pappus of Bomhax ceibn, and lined with the same material. 

 The length of the nest is about 4i inches and its diameter 

 about 2^, outside measurements. 



Anotlicr nest of this bird, taken with eggs on July 7t:h; 



