Nidificaiion of Indian Birds. 85 



many others by observers in Kashmir, notably by Colonel 

 Rattray and Colonel A. E. Ward, by B. B. Osmaston in the 

 Tlmn Valley, by Butler in the Andamans, by Davidson in 

 Kanara, by Harrington in Burmah, by Bourdillon in Travan- 

 core, and by others here and there throughout the Empire. 

 My thanks are due to all these gentlemen for allowing me to 

 incorporate their notes in this article and also, in some 

 instances, for adding fresh matter to that already published. 



The only references given are to the ' Fauna of British 

 India, Birds/ by E. W. Oates and Blanford, and to the pub- 

 lications in which the original descriptions have appeared. 



The abbreviations used are as follows : — 



Bombay Natural History Society's Journal = B. N. H. S. J. 

 Blanford's ' Fauna of British India, Birds ' = F. B. Ind. 



The numbers are in continuation of my last article in ' The 

 Ibis' (1896, p. 318). 



Dendrocitta frontalis. 



Blanford, F. B. Ind. i. p. 33; Stuart Baker, B. N. H. 

 S. J. vii. p. 166; id. Ibis, 1893, p. 41. 



The Black-browed Magpie breeds freely in Dibrugarh from 

 the foot of the hills upwards ; it commences laying its eggs as 

 early as the end of March and continues as late as the middle 

 of June. We find that in this (Lakhimpur) district, at an 

 elevation of three or four hundred feet, birds breed in great 

 numbers which are not found doing so elsewhere under three 

 thousand feet. The climate is, of course, very cool and the 

 nearness of the snow-line keeps birds much lower than 

 where it is further off. 



70. Cypsirhina cucullata. 



Blanford, F. B. Ind. i. p. 35; Harrington, B. N. H. S. J. 

 xvi. p. 168. 

 I can find no record of the breeding of the Hooded 

 Racket-tailed Magpie, but Captain H. H. Harrington has 

 been so good as to send me eggs, together with a brief note, 

 from which it would appear that its nidification does not 

 differ from that of C. v avians. 



Captain Harrington writes : "I was unfortunately laid up 



