266 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker on the 



Harrington and other Burmese collectors. They agree well 

 with the above description, but I have two clutches which 

 deserve mention, one with a bright pink ground and brilliant 

 red-brown markings, and one with a grey ground and grey- 

 brown and green-brown markings. 



The birds appear to lay from four to six eggs in a clutch, 

 five being the most common number. 



105. Pericrocotus albifrons. 

 Oates, F. B. Ind. i. p. 489. 



I have received two pairs of eggs of this Minivet from 

 Mr. K. Macdonald, and a nest from Capt. Harrington taken 

 at Monyma, Upper Burma. 



The nest sent me is a tiny shalloAv cup, composed of the 

 finest grasses and roots all matted together with cobwebs. 

 Lining there is none, beyond two small feathers stuck to the 

 grasses with spiders' webs, but the whole of the outside of the 

 nest is covered with tiny scraps of silver-grey and light 

 brown bark, all closely massed into the very structure of 

 the nest itself, so that there are no ends or loose bits of any 

 sort. The nest is placed on the horizontal fork of a small 

 sapling. It does not hang between but is actually placed 

 on the two twigs, these forming part of the base itself and 

 shewing bare through it. 



It measures 1*8 in. in diameter and is about *6 in. deep. 

 Nowhere are the walls over *A in. thick, and in most places 

 they are *2 in. or less, the actual rim being about "1 in. 



The eggs are typical Minivet's eggs, though very pale in 

 coloration, indeed they are not unlike washed-out specimens 

 of those of P. brtvlrostris. The ground-colour is pale grey, 

 and the markings consist of small blotches and specks of dark 

 brown fairly thickly scattered over the whole surface, 

 in one egg more so at the larger end than elsewhere, in 

 the other three about the same all over. In character these 

 marks are mostly longitudinal, as in P. brevirostris and P.peri- 

 grinus, but they are neither so large nor so numerous, so 

 that the prevailing tint is that of the grey ground-colour. 



In shape they are rather broad ovals, one being slightly 



