90 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker on the 



stems of weeds. Moss seems to be seldom, if ever, used in 

 its construction. It is fairly compactly put together, but the 

 materials seem often to be much sodden and so rotten that 

 they will hardly stand handling. The lining, which is 

 scanty, is formed of fine grasses and fibres. The nest, so 

 far as we know at present, is always placed in scrub-jungle, 

 in some bush from two to four feet from the ground. It is 

 usually well hidden, and the bush selected is generally thick 

 and well covered with foliage. 



The eggs seem to be either two or three in number, and 

 more often the former than the latter. 



They are in colour pale blue-green, like the palest type of 

 eggs of Garrulax moniliger or G. pectoralis, a little darker 

 on average than those of Dryonastes rvficollis or D. sannio. 

 The texture is as in the latter : the shell equally hard, 

 close, and smooth, but less glossy, though much more so 

 than in eggs of the genus Garrulax. The shape is a 

 very regular oval, a few eggs being rather lengthened and 

 pointed. 



Dr. Coltart's eggs and mine average 1*15" by *83" and 

 vary in size between 1*08" by '76" and 1*24" by *87". 



We have had eggs taken or brought to us in the last few 

 days of March, in April, May, and early June. 



I found a nest with young and another with two fresh 

 eggs on the 8th of June, in some scrub-jungle just outside 

 the Military Lines at Sadiya. 



Dryonastes sannio. 



Eggs of this species sent to me by Captain Harrington 

 from the Shan States are quite as glossy as some that I have 

 of D. rvficollis, and more so than any of my eggs of D. sannio 

 taken in North Cachar. 



75. Garrulax delesserti. 



Blanford, F. B. Ind. i. p. 82; Davidson, B. N. H. S. J. 

 xi. p. 655 ; Ferguson, ibid. xv. p. 257. 

 As regards the breeding of this bird we have two accounts 

 which are rather conflicting. Mr. J. Davidson, writing 



