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This bird lays two distinct sizes of eggs, all however of the 

 same type and colouration. Out of holes in neighbouring 

 trees, on the bank of the Meplay on the 13th March 1880, 

 I took two nests, one containing three, and the other two eggs. 

 The first lot of eggs measured respectively, 145" X 0'77", 

 1-15" x 0-80", and 1'16" x 0-79*, while those in the second 

 nest 1-30" x 0*95", and 1-27" X 0-93" respectively. All the 

 eggs, however, are a pale blue, spotted chiefly at the larger end 

 with light chocolate. The nests were in natural hollows in the 

 trees and lined with grass and leaves loosely put together. 



698.— Munia rubronigra, Hodgs. 



This is the only Munia I have noticed in the Thoungyeen 

 valley, where it is sparsely distributed wherever there is a 

 large extent of Kine grass. On the Houndraw and Gyne rivers 

 it is common. 



710— Passer montanus, Lin. 



I observed a few of these at Meeawuddy. At Kaukarit 

 and in Maulmain it is abundant. 



723.— Euspiza aureola, Pall. 



This species is a migrant through the country. This year 

 (1880) in March a large tract of bamboos seeded near Meeawuddy, 

 and there must have been some thousands of these birds feeding 

 there. 



771.— Treron nipalensis, Hodgs. 



Not a rare bird in the Thoungyeen, but less common than 

 O. phayrii. 



I found several nests of this bird which breeds in the Thoun- 

 gyeen forests throughout the end of February and the whole 

 of March. My first four nests were all found in one day, 

 and all were little platforms of straws on horizontally growing 

 bamboos, containing each a couple of unfledged young. 

 This was on the 3rd March. Again on the 22nd March, I got 

 a nest similarly placed with two eggs so hard set that I failed 

 to save them. 



The only egg I got was on the 28th March, near Yok 

 village in the Meplay district. It was placed in the usual flimsy 

 nest in the fork of a small tree about 10 feet above the 

 ground, and was pure white in color and perfectly fresh. I 

 procured the female to make certain. 



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