OF SOME BURMESE BIRDS. 155 



with rounded top. Entrance 2^ by If placed about the 

 centre. The interior of the nest is a rough sphere of 4 inches 

 diameter. 



There were three eggs slightly incubated. The ground color 

 is pure white and the whole surface is miuutely and thickly 

 speckled with reddish brown and greyish purple spots, more 

 closely placed at the thick end where they coalesce in places 

 and form bold patches. 



Dimensions of 3 eggs *82, '81, *83, by *6, *6, and "61, res- 

 pectively. 



On the 29th June, another nest of similar construction and 

 placed on the ground in thick forest, at the root of a shrub. 

 Eggs 3, '79, *8, "78, by "61, *6, and '58, respectively ; only 

 slightly glossy. 



[Davison was, I think, the first by a month or so to obtain a 

 nest of this species. In 1875 he gave me the following note : — 



" On the morning of the 25th March I took at Bankasoon 

 a nest of this species in thick forest ; it was placed on the grouud 

 and was composed externally of dead leaves, with a scanty lining 

 of fine roots and fibres. It measured externally about 5 inches 

 high, by about 4 wide. The egg cavity was hardly 3 inches 

 in diameter. The nest was only partially domed, and was very 

 loosely and carelessly put together." 



The nest contained three eggs, but these were so far incubated 

 that it was impossible to blow two of them. They measured 

 respectively 085, 0*82, and 0"80, in length, by 0'65, 062, and 

 0-60, in breadth." 



The single egg of this species obtained by Mr. Davison is in 

 shape a moderately broad oval, a little pointed towards the small 

 end ; the shell is fine but has little gloss. The ground color, so 

 far as this is visible through the thickly-set markings, is white, 

 and it is very finely but densely stippled and freckled (most 

 densely at the large end where the markings are confluent or 

 nearly so) with dull brown, here and there, specially about the 

 large end ; faint grey specks and spots may be traced underlying 

 as it were the brown markings. 



This egg measures 0'82 by 0*62. 



The egg sent me from Pegu by Mr. Oates is of precisely 

 the same size and type, but the markings are much less dense 

 and are brighter colored. The ground color is white, and the 

 egg is pretty thickly speckled with a reddish chocolate brown. 

 Here and there a moderately large irregularly-shaped spot 

 is intermingled with the finer specklings. The markings are 

 rather most dense at the large end where there is a tendency to 

 form a zone, and here a number of pale purplish grey streaks 

 and specks are also intermingled. — A. 0. H.] 



