BIRDS' NESTS FROM HAKA, CHIN HILLS. 62S 



[Discovered by Col. Rippon at Mt. Victoria. Description in 

 the B. B. O. C, Vol. XV, p. 97. This is a much larger bird than 

 B. ijunnanensis from Bhamo. This is the first record of its nest 

 and eggs. 



N. B. — Babax lanceolahis was reported in the J. A. S. B., Vol. 

 LXXI, part II, no. III/02 by Lieut. H. Wood, R. E., and F. Finn 

 as having been got in the Chin Hills. This must be a mistake 

 and the bird wrongly identified and it Avould be advisable for the 

 Calcutta Museum to have the skin properly identified. It gives a 

 wrong locality for B. lanceolahis which so far has not been recorded 

 I believe from Indian limits — although I believe it is the same 

 bird as B. yunnanensis the only difference being the cheek stripe 

 which in one is dark chestnut, in the other black. — H. H. H.] 



C83a^ Troclialoioterum liolerythrops (Eippon). — Two specimens 

 shot on 23rd July 1910 and a few others seen. Has a very pretty 

 mellow whistle. 



C98) Manipur Streaked Laughing-Thrush, Trochalopterum 

 virgatum. — Three nests found. In each case the nest was situated 

 low down in a clump of thatching grass and was a large loosely 

 built cup-shaped structure of dried grasses with a leaf or two work- 

 ed in and lined with some loosely laid-in grass roots and feathery 

 grass tails. The measurements were roughly 2^ inches deep by 3 

 to 3i inches diameter internal^. One bird was netted on its nest 

 on 17th April, one was shot as it left its nest on 22nd April, and 

 the third was allowed to go as its nest was found to contain a 

 young bird and an addled egg on 30th April. The eggs were 

 pure greeny blue, the colour one often sees in poor specimens of 

 turquoise, and varied between 1-15 x "8 and '98 x "76 and in each 

 case thei'e were two in the nest. 



[Also procured by Col. Rippon at Mt. Victoria. Nest and 

 eggs described in B. N. H. S. Journal, Vol. VIIL— H. H. H.] 



(125) Rufous-necked Scimitar Babbler, Pomatorhinus rufi- 

 collis. — One nest brought in by a Chin on 1st May with the bird 

 noosed on the nest. It was said to have been found on the ground 

 under a bramble and was composed of coarse grass stems and 

 pine needles with an outer layer of dry bamboo sheath or some 

 similar substance forming a thin walled cup partially domed over, 

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