456 NOTES ON THE NIDIFICATION 



small and unfecundated eggs continually laid by birds of all 

 species. 



The nest was suspended to tlie extreme end of a small 

 branch overhanging 1 a stream, the bottom of the nest being 

 about 3 feet above the surface of the water. It was about 

 2 feet iu total length ; at about 15 inches from the point of 

 suspension, the suspending portion of the true nest branched 

 into two, meeting the nest at opposite sides, like a very broad 

 handle to a basket, and leaving, as it were, two wide openings 

 to the nest. Probably the nest had originally only one en- 

 trance ; but, as the young grew, it was found that there was 

 not room for them all to perch (as young birds delight in 

 doing) on the edge of the original entrance, so another opening 

 was effected on the opposite side, thus giving the nest its basket- 

 like appearance. 



" The eggs are rather elongated ovals, very decidedly pointed 

 towards the small end. The shell is fine and compact, but 

 has only a very faint gloss. 



tl The colour is pure white. 



" The eggs vary from 0"92 to 097 in length, and from 0*07 to 

 0-69 in breadth/' 



139 tcr.— Eurylaimus javanicus, Horsf. 



This present species breeds in March. On the 21st of that 

 month I took a nest on the banks of the Bankasoon Choung. 

 It was suspended to the extreme tip of a very tall bamboo 

 overhanging the stream. It was a massive structure, composed 

 of moss, fibres, roots, dry leaves, bits of wood, and small 

 twio-s. It measured in total length 23 inches by 9 at the broadest 

 part. The lower edge of the entrance hole, which measured 

 2-75 inches in diameter, was 5 inches from the bottom of the 

 nest, and placed at one side. The egg-cavity was about 

 3 inches deep by about 3 wide, and thickly lined with dry 

 bamboo leaves. 



The nest contained two fresh eggs. 



" The eggs are moderately elongated ovals, somewhat com- 

 pressed towards the small end, but not pointed there, on the 

 contrary rather obtuse. The shell is very fine and fragile, but 

 it has no perceptible gloss. The ground color- is a dull white, 

 and is thickly speckled with minute spots and specks of rusty 

 brown. These specklings are most numerous towards the large 

 end, where in one egg they form an irregular mottled 

 almost confluent zone ; in the other they only form a large 

 irregular patch at one side of the broad end of the egg. I do not 

 know any other Indian egg for which this could be mistaken. 



" The eggs measure 7"09 by 0-76, and 1'03 by 0-74/' 



