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not identify it for some years, when I had an opportunity 

 of comparing it with the British Museum skins. 



My other eggs are intermediate between these two clutches, 

 but are more of the true Cyornis- than of the Stoparola-tyjie. 

 They were all taken either on the highest peaks to the east 

 of the district or in the valleys just below them. None 

 were found under some 4000 feet. 



115. Cyornis pallidipes. 



Oates, P. B. Ind. ii. p. 22; Cardew, B. N. II. S. J. x. 

 p. 147 ; Davidson, ibid. xi. p. 667. 



Long ago Mr. Davidson took the nests and eggs of this 

 Flycatcher in Kanara, but was unable to capture or identify 

 the parents, so the first authentic account of this bird's 

 noting is that given by Mr. Cardew (loc. cit.). Writing 

 from Ootacamund, he notes : — 



" In the same month I found the nest of another bird, of 

 whose identification I can find no record, namely the 

 somewhat scarce little Flycatcher, Cyornis pallidipes 



(Jerdon) The nest was found at an elevation of 



4000 feet above the sea. It was placed in a hole in a 

 bank, under the protection of a large rock, and by the side 

 of the old ghat-road or riding-path to Coonoor, on which 

 scores of persons pass up and down daily. It was composed 

 of roots on the outside, with a few dry leaves, and lined with 

 fine fibres, and contained three young birds a few days old. 

 On another occasion, in the last week in May, I came on a 

 pair of these birds at about the same elevation, with fully 

 fledged young, so the breeding-season must extend from 



April to June The young of this Flycatcher 



arc much marked with orange, and resemble the young of 

 Ochromela nigrorufa, but arc, of course, larger and without 

 the orange (pulls." 



Mr. Davidson thus writes of the eggs he took in Kanara, 

 above mentioned : — 



"At Supaalsolonce obtained a nest which Ibclieve belonged 

 to it. This was brought to me on the 15th May, 1893, by 

 a man who had noticed it a day before, but when lie saw me 



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