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76.— Parra indica, Lath. (900.) 



I procured a nest with four eggs on the 6th of August. 

 (N. &E.,p, 591.) 



77.— Porphyrio poliocephalus, Lath. (902.) 



I procured one nest with eggs in August. (N. &*E., p. 594.) 



78.— Gallicrex cinerea, Gm. (904). 



July 17th. — One nest with three eggs. 



August 1th. — One nest with three eggs, and a fourth was taken 

 from the female bird. Makes its nest in rank grass near paddy 

 fields. (N. & E., p. 596.) 



79.— Gallinula chloropus, L. (905.) 



Nest with five eggs on 6th August. This is, however, one 

 of my finds which is not so well authenticated as I should 

 wish. (N. & E., p. 597.) 



80.— Erythra phcenicura, Forst. (907.) 



This bird always constructs its nest in trees at heights not 

 below 10 feet. It selects a creeper grown tree either in paddy 

 land or on the outskirts of forest. I failed to find the 

 nest at Thayetmyo, because I looked for it on the ground. A 

 bamboo bush, the branches of which are well entangled, is also 

 much affected. The nest is merely an irregular platform of 

 dead and green leaves resting on a few twigs. One nest 

 found on the 10th June contained four eggs, and another found 

 on the 24th of the same month contained also four well 

 incubated eggs. These eight eggs measure from 1*6 to l - 43 

 in length, and from 1*21 to l'l in breadth. They are almost 

 without gloss, pale buff, covered profusely with spots and 

 small dashes of reddish brown on the surface and paler ones 

 of the same color sunk into the shell. (N. & E., p. 599.) 



81.— Hypotaenidia striata, L. (913.) 



This bird, with us, is very common in Lower Pegu, and I 

 have found no less than eight nests. The breeding season 

 seems to extend from about the 1st of July to the 11th October, 

 on which latter date a nest of well incubated eggs was found. 



The nest is a mere pad of soft grass leaves and the outer rind 

 of the elephant grass, about eight inches in diameter and one 

 thick, placed in a tuft of grass always near water and raised a few 

 inches above the ground. The coarse grass growing: round 



