o54 Notes on a Collection of Eggs made at Mitrree. 



No. 363.— Morula castanea. 



Two nests in bankS;, in the beg-inning" of June ; egg-s veiy simi- 

 lar to M. bidbul, but somewhat larger^ being 1'25 by 'S. Captain 

 Cock got two nests in the Sindh valley^ Kashmir. It is peculiar 

 that this species always breeds in banks. All the meruliue 

 birds breed about 5_,000 to 7,000 feet up. 



No. 392— Stachyris pyrrhops. 



Nest found in low ground, about 100 yards from the river 

 Jhelum, situated in a low bush externally composed of broad dry 

 reed leaves, and interiorly of fine grass, cup-shaped. Eggs four in 

 number, long, oval, white, with a few reddish specks at the larger 

 end. Length "7, breadth '5. Lays in the latter end of June, 4,000 

 feet up. 



No. 411.— Garrulax allbogularis. 



This was the most beautiful eg^ taken this season, being of a 

 rich deep glossy greenish blue colour. The nest is composed of 

 fresh ivy twigs with the leaves on, tightly woven together. The 

 birds breed on small trees not high up at the end of a branch. 

 While their nests were being' examined, they came round in flocks 

 to see what was happening, chattering and making that peculiar 

 laughing note from which this genus takes its name. They 

 are even gregarious in the breeding season, and all the nests were 

 found pretty near each other, about 6,000 feet up. 



No. 418.— Trochalopteron variegatum. 



The nidification of this I'roc/iafojfjiferojz was apparently miknowii 

 before. We found one nest on the 15th of June, about twenty 

 feet up a spruce fir at the extremity of the bough. Nest, deep 

 cup-shaped, solidly built of grass roots and twigs, the bird sits 

 close. Eggs, light greenish blue, sparingly spotted with pale 

 purple, the same size as those of M. castanea. 



No. 425.— Trochalopteron lineatum. 



One of the commonest nests about Murree. Breeds from May 

 to end of July. 



No. 429.— Sibia capistrata. 



The egg of this bird was we believe previously unknown, and 

 it was a mere chance that we found the whereabouts of their 

 nests, as they breed high up in the spruce firs at the outer end of 

 a bough. The nest is neatly made of moss, lined with stalks of 

 the maiden hair fern. The eggs are pale blue, spotted and blotched 

 with pale and reddish brown. They are "95 in length and "7 in 

 breadth. This species breeds in June, about 7,000 feet up. 



