460 NOTES ON THE NIDlFtCATION OF SOME BURMESE BIRDS. 



A few days later, on the 25th, I took a second nest, quite 

 similar in shape and materials to the first one, but placed 

 several feet above the ground in a dense mass of creepers 

 growing over a rock. It was quite exposed to view, and from a 

 distance of 3 or 4 feet the eggs were quite visible. 



There were three eggs in the nest similar to those in the 

 first nest. Both pai'ent birds were obtained. The first nest 

 measured 5 inches long by 4 # 5 wide ; the egg-cavity 3 '8 deep 

 by 2'75 wide at the entrance. The other was about half an inch 

 smaller each way. 



"The measurements of the six eggs varied from 0'76 to 0*81 

 in length by 056 to 0"6 in width, but the, average is 0'78 

 by 0-59. 



"The eggs are rather narrow ovals as a rule, occasionally much 

 pointed towards one end. The shell is very fine, and has a faint 

 gloss ; the ground color is white. The markings, which are 

 difficult to describe, consist first of spots, specks, and hair-line 

 scratches, dark brown, almost black occasionally, and a great 

 amount of irregular clouding, streaking, and smudging of a pale 

 dirty brown, slightly reddish in some eggs. Besides this, about 

 the large end, there is an indistinct irregular zone of faint inky 

 purple spots and small blotches, and a few spots of this same 

 color may be observed on other parts of the egg." 



701 bis.— Munia leucogastra, Blyth. 



On the 25th of April last I took a nest of this species in 

 dense forest between Malawoon and Bankasoou, and about six 

 miles from the nearest open grouud. The nest was a globular 

 structure, about 7 inches long by about 6 wide at the broadest 

 part, and was composed of dry grass and bamboo leaves, and 

 lined with finer grass stems and a few fibres, and placed in' the 

 fork of a sapliug, about 7 feet from the ground. It contained 

 a single white egg, similar to that of M. acuticauda. 



781 ter. — Carpophaga griseicapilla, Wald. 



"While ascending the North- West slope of Mooleyit on the 

 27th of January, I flushed a pigeon (which I shot) off her nest, 

 in a small sapling growing close to the path, but in very heavy 

 virgin forest. The nest was the usual pigeon type of nest, a 

 mere apology of a few dry twigs loosely put together. The nest 

 contained only one fresh egg, but the female on dissection showed 

 no signs of being about to lay another, so it is probable that 

 one is the normal number of eggs laid by this species. This 

 egg is of course pure white and glossy, nearly the same thick- 

 ness at both ends, but a little pointed towards the smaller end. 

 It measures 1'61 in length by 1*15 in width. 



