276 Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker on the 



in the morning in the neighbourhood of the rice-field he was 

 working in, instead of telling me about it and taking me to 

 the nest, he rushed off to the nest and brought it to me, in 

 so doing breaking one of the three eggs it contained. As it 

 reached me within twenty minutes of its being taken, and 

 I started at once to the spot, I hardly doubted that I should 

 be in time to identify the owner, but though I waited two 

 hours not a bird came near the nest, and I then reluctantly 

 left a man near it and searched the whole forest round. It 

 was singularly devoid of birds, and all I saw was a pair of 

 Zosterops, another of Kittocincla, and a pair of this bird and 



•a few Woodpeckers The nest was in a hollow in the 



top of a dead stump about one and a half feet from the 

 ground, and was composed of green moss lined with white 

 lichen and with a few threads of fine grass and black roots. 

 The eggs had been originally three in number, and were of 

 a dull greenish white with bold brownish blotches over the 

 larger end. They were not exactly what one would have 

 expected the eggs of this bird to be, and were considerably 

 larger than those of C. tickelli." 



Later, Mr. Bell found C. pallidipes breeding in Kanara 

 and took nests and eggs, some of which he sent to Mr. Davidson ; 

 the eggs proved to be similar to those taken by the 

 latter in the same district, and enabled him to identify them 

 correctly. 



A clutch of three eggs was generously given to me by 

 Mr. Davidson, and these agree well with what he has written 

 about them. They are certainly not typical Cyoruis eggs, 

 yet, as the uniformly coloured eggs of some clutches 

 of C. tickelli, C. rubeculoides, and others stand at one end 

 of the series, so these might form the limit at the other 

 end. 



The ground-colour is a pale yellow stone and the markings 

 consist of bold blotches, specks, and spots of reddish brown 

 with others underlying them of pale purple, lavender, and 

 reddish grey. At the larger end these markings are numerous, 

 often running into one another, and forming a rough cap or 

 broad ring, but over the smaller half they are more sparse 



