458 NOTES ON THE NIDIFICATION 



403 bis.— Pomatorhinus olivaceus, Blyth (v. ante 

 p. 137.) 



I found a nest of this bird on the morning" of the 21st January 

 1875 at Pakchan, Tenasserim Province, British Burmah. It was 

 placed on the ground at the foot of a small screw pine, growing in 

 thick bamboo jungle ; it was a large globular structure, composed 

 externally of dry bamboo leaves, and well secreted by the mass 

 of dry bamboo leaves that surrounded it ; it was in fact buried 

 in these ; aud, if I had not seen the bird leave it, it would most 

 undoubtedly have remained undiscovered. Externally, it was 

 about a foot in length by 9 inches in height, but it was impos- 

 sible to take any accurate measurement, as the nest really had 

 no marked external definition. Internally, was a lining, about 

 half an inch thick, composed of thin strips of dry bark, fibres, 

 &c. The entrance was to one side, circular, aud measuring 2*5 

 inches in diameter. The egg-cavity measured 4 inches deep 

 by about 3 in height. 



In the nest were three pure white ovatopyriform eggs, but so 

 far incubated that they would probably have hatched off before 

 the day was out. 



The measurements of two were 1*1 and l - 09 in length by 

 0*75 in breadth. 



429 quai.— Sibia melanoleuca, Tick. 



I secured a nest of this species on the 21st of February, con- 

 taining two spotless pale blue eggs, slightly incubated. The nest, 

 a deep compactly woveu cup, was placed about 40 feet from the 

 ground in the fork of one of the smaller branches of a high 

 tree growing on the edge of a deep khud (or ravine.) 



The egg-cavity of the nest is lined with fern roots, fibres 

 and fine grass stems; outside this is a thick coating of dried 

 bamboo leaves and coarse grass, and outside this again is a 

 thick irregular coating of green moss, dried leaves, and coarse 

 fibres and fern roots. 



Externally, the nest measures about 5 inches in height and 

 nearly the same in external diameter at the top. 



The egg-cavity measures 17 deep by 2*7 across. 



The eggs, a pale spotless blue, measure 0*95 and "98 in 

 length by 0-66 and 0"68 in breadth. 



567.— Reguloides viridipennis, Blyth. 



An account of this nest has already been given in Stray 

 Feathers, vide ante, p. 333. The three eggs there mentioned 

 measured — 0*59 and 0'6 in length by 0'49 in breadth. 



