141 NOTES ON THE NIDIFICATION 



14.— Palseornis torquatus, Bodd (148.) 



Breeds commonly throughout Pegu. I have procured eggs, 

 from 28th January to 25th February. On the latter date, 

 however the eggs were nearly hatched. (Nests and Eggs, 

 p. 116.) 



15.— Xantholsema hsemacephala, Mull (197) 



One nest with young birds on the 14th April near Sittang. 

 (Nests and Eggs, p. 131.) 

 16.— Rhopodytes tristis, Less. (215.) 



June llth. — Nest seven feet from the ground in the fork of a 

 leafy shrub. A mere platform of dead twigs lined with leaves, 

 very loosely laid. The whole structure meagre and incoherent, 

 measuring 10 inches by 6 and a few inches thick. It con- 

 tained one fresh egg, very chalky and with little gloss ; color 

 pure Avhite. The egg measured 1-27 by 1*0 ; Pegu. 



September 10th. — Nest in a bamboo bush about 20 feet from 

 the around, of very irregular shape and unmeasurable. Com- 

 posed of much the same materials as the nest described above. 

 Two eggs, nearly ready to hatch off. Color originally white, 

 but no°v much stained with yellowish smears. Very little gloss 

 and extremely fragile. The two eggs measured 14 by 1'05 and 

 1-33 by 1-05; Pegu. 



June 20th. — Nest with two incubated eggs. 

 Jane 21s£.— Nest with two fresh eggs. 



The position of these was much the same as above described, 

 viz., in bamboo trees. 



[Mr. Davison was, 1 believe, the first to obtain an egg of this 

 species which he extracted from the oviduct of a female killed at 

 Meeta Myo, Tavoy District, Tenasserim,on the 20th April 1874. 

 The egg is almost cylindrical in shape, excessively obtuse 

 at both ends, and very little curved on the sides. The shell is 

 rather chalky, and though tolerably smooth and soft to the 

 touch is entirely devoid of gloss. The color is pure white, and 

 the egg measures 1*36 in length by 1*05 in width. 



In 1875 both Mr. Cripps in Sylhet and Mr. Gammie in 

 Sikhim found nests and took the eggs. 

 The following is Mr. Cripps' account: — 

 "Sylhet, 12/A May 1875. — A female was shot off the nest; 

 this was placed on a small tree (about 4 feet off the ground on 

 top of a teelah in amongst tea bushes, although heavy jungle 

 was alongside) in a fork where several branches oi'iginated 

 and was a very slight structure, carelessly made, consisting 

 of twigs over which a layer of green leaves had been placed. 

 These were dry, though when I got them. The nest was more a 



