282 FIRST LIST OF THE BIRDS OF 



1*16; at front, 1/0; closed wings fall short of end of tail, 

 1*25; weight, 1-87 oz. Legs plumbeous; claws black; irides 

 pinkish red ; bill pinkish, slightly tinged with dusky. 



25th April, Male. — Length, 8*83 ; expanse, 15'0; wing, 496 ; 

 tail from vent, 3*30; tarsus, 0*83; bill from gape, 130; at 

 front, 1*10 ; closed wings fall short of end of tail, 1*25 ; weight, 

 2*12 ozs. Irides pinkish red ; legs plumbeous ; bill pinkish, a 

 good deal blotched with dusky ; tip dusky. The above couple 

 were shot in company. 



19th May, temale. — Length, 933 ; expanse, IQ'O ; wing, 

 5*16 ; tail from vent, 3*5 ; tarsus, 0'80 ; bill from gape, 1/27 ; 

 at front, 1/06; closed wings fall short of end of tail, 0*75. 

 Irides blood red; bill almost lake red; legs plumbeous ; ovaries 

 minute. 



30^/i May, Male. — Length, 950 ; expanse, 16'33 ; wing, 

 5*25 ; tail from vent, 3 - 50 ; tarsus, 0*92; bill from gape, 1'32 ; 

 bill at front, 1*12 ; closed wings fall short of end of tail, 1*16 ; 

 weight, 2"12 ozs. Irides blood red ; legs plumbeous ; bill pink; 

 mouth, iuside pinkish. 



Very common, and a permanent resident. On the 20th April 

 I found a nest containing two half-fledged young ones ; in 

 the garden was a clump of mangoe trees, and attached to one 

 of the outer twigs, but overhung by a lot of leaves and 

 about 1 2 feet from the ground, hung the nest, of the usual 

 type. 



475.— Oopsychus saularis, Lin, 



5th April 1878, Male. — Length, 775; expanse, 1125; 

 wing, 3*75 ; tail from vent, 375 ; tarsus, 1*08 ; bill from gape, 

 1*0; at front, 0'70; closed wings fall short of end of tail, 

 2-0 ; weight, 0-87 oz. Bill and legs black. 



Very common, and a permanent resident ; affects the haunts 

 of man ; nests in cavities and holes in trees and holes in buildings. 

 In the Dacca district I once saw a nest in a bunch of the " Kuch- 

 kela (Musa sapienkim) • two of the smaller bunches were about 

 four inches apart, and in the cavity thus formed the bird had 

 made its nest and reared three young ; the nest was only seven 

 feet from the ground. Another nest was placed in a hole in a date 

 tree and was only three feet from the ground. Although they 

 always build iu holes, in every one they form a pad of fine 

 grasses and roots with a tiny depression for the eggs, of which I 

 have never come across more than four and sometimes only two 

 in a nest ; if the eggs are removed they lay again in the same 

 nest. I have taken hard-set eggs as early as the 7th April in 

 this district and up to the 15th June. 



