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the damp ground.* The dimensions of the whole were exterior 

 height 6 in., diameter back to front 5 in., side to side 4 inches. 

 Entrance near the top about 2 inches across by 1^ inches high. 

 Interior diameter 2 inches each way, depth of cup inside from 

 lower edge of entrance about one inch. Eggs three in number 

 measured -73 by -6, -72 by -6 and -69 by -59, and were dull white 

 sparingly freckled with reddish and faint purple. 



[B. B. O. C, Vol. XIV, p. 83. Discovered by Col. Rippon at 

 Mt. Victoria. Yours is the first record of its nesting. — H. H. H.] 



SYLVIIDiE. 



(372) Brown Bush-Warbler, Tribura luteiventris. — One nest 

 found and bird netted on it on 27th April 1910. The nest was 

 a large loosely-built ball of grass blades and leaves lined with fine 

 grass-tails with a small opening on one side near the top. It was 

 placed nearly on the ground supported between some stifi" grass 

 stems and herbs and overhung by thistles, bracken and 

 grasses which concealed it so well that, even when I knew within 

 a few inches where it was, I found considerable difficulty in locat- 

 ing it. The eggs were three, whitish spotted with reddish brown 

 more thickly near the larger end. Measurements -73 x '56. 

 Another nest which I am pretty sure belonged to the same species 

 was obtained within a few days but the bird escaped out of my 

 hand after being netted. 



[Recorded by Col. Rippon from Mt. Victoria. — H. H. H.] 

 (420) Tenasserim White-tailed Willow-Warbler, Acantho-- 

 2y7ieuste davisoni. — One nest was brought in with the bird which 

 had been noosed by a Chin. He stated he had found the nest 



* Note. — Apropos of this nest, Major Harington informs me that when at Sinlum, 

 Bhamo, in 1905, a similar nest and eg'gs were brought to him by a Kachin. 



He accompanied the Kachin to the spot whence the nest was obtained, but saw 

 no bird. In 1908 when he was up there again he hunted the same bit of jungle 

 but never saw another nest. He did, however, shoot a specimen of TJ' sinlumensis 

 there, so that in all probability the eggs he found in 1905 belonged to that bird. 



Major Harii^f ton's nest was found in a very damp shady spot, very much like 

 the situation of my nest, and his description of the lining of his nest as " a papier 

 mache sort of cup " is a better description of the appearance of my nest than I 

 have given. It is doubtless a provision to keep the inside of the nest dry. 



