356 Notes on a Collection of Eggs made at Murree. 



No. 604.— Agrodroma griseorufescens — 



Hume. Jerdoni, Finscli. 



Eougli made nest of grass. Breeds from May till middle of July^ 

 low down the hill side. Lays four eggs, much resembling the eggs 

 of other species of this family. We took six nests, and twice found 

 the common cuckooes eggs in them. They do not breed above 

 6,000 feet iip. 



No. 609.— Pteruthius erythropterns. 



There is no record about the breeding habits of this species. It 

 is an exceedingly difficult nest to find, and it was only by long 

 and careful watching, through field glasses, that Captain Cock 

 was able to find that there was a nest at the top of a very high 

 chesnut tree as the birds kept flying to and fro with building 

 materials in their beaks. The nest is most skilfully concealed 

 being at the top of the tree, with bunches of leaves both above 

 and below. The nest, like the orioles, is built pendant in a fork. 

 It is somewhat roughly made of moss and hair. The eggs are 

 pinky white, blotched with red, forming in some a ring round the 

 larger end. They average "9 in length and '65 in breadth. We 

 were fortunate enough to secure two nests, both were more than 

 sixty feet from the ground. Breeds in the end of May, at an 

 elevation of 7,000 feet. 



No. 631— Zosterops palpebrosns. 



The nest is figured in Gould^'s Birds of Asia. The eggs are pale 

 blue, laid in June, at about 6,000 feet up. 



No. 633— Cephalopyrus fiammiceps. 



On the 25th May we found the nest of this sj)ecies in a hole 

 in a rotten sycamore tree, about fifteen feet from the ground. 

 The nest was a neatly made cup-shaped one, formed principally 

 of fine grass. We were unfortunately too late for the eggs as we 

 found four nearly fledged young ones, shewing that these birds 

 lay about the 15th of April. Elevation, 7,000 feet. 



No. 634.— CEgithaliscns erythrocephalus. 



Builds a globular nest, of moss and hair and feathers, in thorny 

 bushes. The eggs we found were pinkish white, with a ring of 

 obsolete brown spots at the larger end. Size, '55 by "o. Lays in 

 May. 



No. 644.— Parus monticolus. 



Breeds early in May in holes, in walls, and trees, laying white 

 eggs, covered with red spots. 



