AND SPECIALLY THOSE OF THE THOUNGYEEN VALLEY. 185 



On the slope of a steep spur of the East Watershed range of 

 the Meplay river, in dense bamboo forest, I found, on the 4th 

 April 1878, a nest of the above bird. A Woodpecker had 

 made a hole in a partially dry Wahbo bamboo (Bambusa bran- 

 disiana) of immense girth. Of this the Shama had taken 

 advantage, and having stuffed up the hollow from the next 

 knot below to within three inches of the hole, with dry bamboo 

 leaves, had above that made a loose cup-shaped nest of twigs 

 and roots. I was eating my lunch, seated on a rock not far 

 from the bamboo in question, and saw the female, after making 

 two or three short flights and balking herself in the direction 

 of the hole, finally enter it. I approached very cautiously, and 

 stuffing my handkerchief into the entrance hole, managed to 

 secure eggs and bird. The former were four in number, 

 slightly set, of an oily green color, much spotted, speckled, and 

 dashed with umber brown. They measured respectively, 09" X 

 0-62", 0-87" x 0'62", 0-85"-xO'6i" and 0'85"x0-62". 



481.— Pratincola caprata, Lin, 

 483.— Pratincola indicus, Blyth. 



Both these species are found sparingly through the Thoun- 

 gyeen valley-— the former as a permanent resident, the latter 

 as a cold weather migrant. In the plains about Kaukarit and 

 the banks of the Gyne river they abound. 



486.— Pratincola ferreus, Eodgs. 



A mere straggler to the Thoungyeen valley. I shot one speci- 

 men in dry JJillenia forest on the banks of the Thekkaya 

 choung, on the 4th March 1880. It occurs, but I have not 

 personally come across it, elsewhere in the province. 



507 Us.— Larvivora cyane, Fall. 



By the sides of streams, and along the edges of cultivation 

 clearings, I have found this bird solitary or in pairs. In the 

 Thoungyeen valley it is rarer perhaps, (less often seen at any 

 rate) than on the Houndraw and Gyne. 



518— Arundinax sedon, Pall. 



I have been unfortunate in collecting reed birds. Somehow 

 or another I have never come across any but this species, and 

 that only on two occasions, once on Gwoongyee choung, 

 Zammee river, and once at Kaukarit. I have never noticed 

 it in the Thoungyeen valley. 



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