166 NOTES ON THE NIDIFICATION OF 



122.— Megalsema hodgsoni, Bonap. (192.) 



I have found numerous nest holes of this bird, but never the 

 eggs. 



On the 8th May I discovered two fully-fledged young birds 

 in a hole of a horizontal branch of a tree about 10 feet from the 

 ground. The entrance to the nest was on the upper side of the 

 branch. The branches selected are^ I think, always dead ones, 

 (" Nests and Eggs/' p. 129.) 



123.— Tephrodornis pondicerianus, Gm. (265.) 



Nest with three fresh eggs on the 3rd March near Pegu, 

 (" Nests and Bggs/' p. 176.) 



124.— Pericrocotus peregrinus, Lin. (276.) 



In Lower Pegu eggs of this bird may be found from the end 

 of April to the middle of June. (" Nests and Eggs/' p. 276.) 



125.— Chaptia senea, Vieill. (282,) 



I procured one nest on the 23rd April. It was placed at the 

 tip of an outer branch of a jack tree, and attention was drawn to 

 it by the vigorous attacks the parents made on passing 

 birds. 



The nest was suspended in a fork. The outside diameter is 

 4'^ and inside ?>" : total depth 2^'^, and the egg cup is about- 

 \\" deep. The nest is composed of fine grass, strips of plantain 

 bark and other vegetable fibres closely woven together. The 

 edges and the interior are chiefly of delicate branchlets of the 

 finer weeds and grasses. It is overlaid at the edges, where it is 

 attached to the branches, with cobwebs, and a few fragments of 

 moss are stuck on at various points. 



There were two fresh eggs. The ground color is a pale sal- 

 mon fawn, and the shell is covered with darker spots and marks 

 of the same. They are only very slightly glossy. The two 

 eggs measure '85 by -63. (" Nests and Eggs/' p. 192.) 



126.— Dissemurus grandis,^^ Gould. (284.) 



I have taken the eggs of this species on all dates, from the 

 30th April to the 16th June. 



The nest is placed in forks of the outer branches of trees at 

 all heights from 20 to 70 feet, and in all cases they are very 

 diflicult to take without breaking the eggs. 



* Possibly 285. — D. paradiseus is meant, as this is I learn the common species in 

 ILower Pegu, where Mr. Gates has been of late years. But grandis certainly occurs 

 also in NortJiern Pegu. However, Mr. Gates will doubtless define the areas of 

 distribution, of the two species in his promised "New List of the Birds of Pegu." 



