86 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker on the 



when the birds were breeding, but had marked down a bit 

 of jungle in which they were plentiful, and the head man of 

 an adjacent village was sent out to collect the eggs for me 

 (I gave him a skin and also the Burman name for the bird). 

 The men sent in two nests with the branches complete and 

 some eggs. 



" The nests were very neatly made in some thorny tree 

 with a thorny foundation, and the sides extended slightly 

 beyond the lips of the nests proper : very like miniature 

 nests of Pica rustica inverted. The interior was very like a 

 flimsy Bulbul's. There can be no doubt as to the eggs, which 

 are unlike any others that I have found in the district and 

 which have a distinctly Corvine look about them." 



The two eggs sent to me by Captain Harrington are 

 typical small eggs of Dendrocitta, and the only eggs they 

 could be other than those of C. cucullata are those of 

 C. varians, which does not breed in the vicinity. 



In shape they are broad obtuse ovals ; of a pale dull green- 

 grey ground-colour, profusely spotted and blotched with light 

 brown, and with secondary underlying purple-grey markings. 

 At the larger end these coalesce, forming a cap in one egg, 

 but in the other not much more thickly grouped there than 

 elsewhere. The texture is decidedly coarse and the shell 

 very stout in proportion to the size of the eggs. There is 

 hardly any gloss. 



The two eggs measure -87" by -66" and -85" by -67". 



Both nests were taken in May, 1904. 



In the Bombay Journal Captain Harrington describes his 

 eggs as grey-stone in ground-colour with olive spots. His 

 eggs are considerably larger than the pair sent to me, being 

 about -95" by '7". 



An egg sent by Captain Harrington to Dr. Coltart agrees 

 exactly with those sent to me. 



71. LOPHOPHANES DICHROUS. 



Blanford, F. B. Ind. i. p. 59; Osmaston, B. N. H. S. J. 

 ix. p. 192 ; id. ibid. xiii. p. 542. 

 Mr. Osmaston discovered this small Tit breeding in the 



