Notes on a Collection of Eggs made at 3Iurree. 355 



No. 444.— Hypsipetes psaroides. 



Numerous nests of this species were found agreeing- well with 

 Jerdon's description. They breed in May and June, never 

 above 6,000 feet. 



No. 458.— Otocompsa lencogenys. 



Breeds in tke valleys at about 4,000 or 5,000 feet up in the 

 end of June. Lays four eggs with a white ground, very thickly 

 blotched with claret red. Nest, roughly made of grass and roots, 

 in low bushes. 



No. 461.— Pycnonotns pygm^us. Bodg, 



This bulbul breeds in large numbers in the lower hills. 



No. 470— Oriolns kundoo. 



Several nests of the common oriole were found about Murree, 

 at low elevations. 



No. 475.— Copsychus saiilaris. 



Breeds freely at low elevations all round Murree. 



No, 483.— Pratincola indica. 



This bird breeds i-n the valleys. We obtained a large series of 

 eggs. Vide P.ferrea. 



No. 486.— Pratincola ferrea. 



We took numerous nests of this species between the 1st of 

 May and the end of July. They breed in banks. Their eggs re- 

 semble those of P. indica, pale blue, with a few russet spots at the 

 larger end. We twice found the egg of cuculus canorus in this 

 bird's nest. Elevation, 7,000 feet. 



No. 547.— Suya criniger. 



Nest built in high jungle grass loosely, but neatly made of 

 very fine grass and cobwebs, opening at one side near the top. 

 Five eggs, white, with fine red spots at the larger end, forming a 

 ring. Breeds late in June, at about 4,000 feet elevation. 



No. 563.— Eeguloides occipitalis. 



The nest of these little warblers are very difficult to find, and 

 the only chance is to sit down and watch the bird to its hole. It 

 generally breeds at the roots of large trees or in stone walls, 

 building far in, a dome-shaped nest, and laying five pure white 

 eggs similar in size to those of Mtiscicapula snperciliaris. We 

 obtained about a dozen nests. Breeds at hig-h elevations. 



