BIRDS' NJESrS FROM HAKA, GRIN HILLS, 627 



on the ground in short grass. The nest was a little soft cup 

 composed as follows : an outer layer of fibres and some grasses, 

 inside which was a thickish layer of moss with a patch of black 

 horsehair on one side, the whole being lined with a plentiful 

 supply of soft black hairs intermingled with a few white ones. 

 The internal diameter was less than two inches and depth about 

 one inch. Eggs 4, pure white, measuring from -61 x '45 to -59 x 

 '44. The same man brought in another nest three days later, on 

 28th April, which was exactly the same and also contained four 

 eggs varying from -G x "46 to -58 x "46, but as he had failed 

 to noose the bird I could not be certain it was the same 

 species. 



[The nest must have been domed and the inside only brought 

 you. I found it nesting on the Bhamo Hills and Gates on the 

 Byingyi Hills.— H. H. H.] 



(432) Anderson's Flycatcher-Warbler, Gryptolopha tephw- 

 cephala. — Nest taken and bird netted on nest by me on 21st May 

 1910. Nest was found on the ground near the top of a small 

 bank about eighteen inches high and was well concealed by an 

 overhanging tuft of grass and some herbaceous leaves. It was a 

 largish oval-shaped, domed structure composed outside of coarse 

 grasses loosely laid together, the entrance being on one side and 

 well overhung. Inside, it was lined with very soft moss and 

 thistle down, the moss well separated before being made into a 

 compact cushion. The dimensions were outside height 6 inches, 

 back to front 4^ inches, side to side 4 inches. Diameter of 

 entrance about one inch. Interior diameter about 1-^ inches, 

 depth of cup from edge of entrance one inch. Eggs 4, pure white, 

 measuring -61 x -46, -59 x -46, -58 x -46 and -58 x -46. 



[Found by me nesting at Sinlum. My eggs slightly bigger 

 than yours. — H. H. H.] 



(460) Austen's Hill-Warbler, Suya Miasiana. — Very com- 

 mon. Several nests found, the most striking thing about which 

 was the dainty roofing of moss always to be found worked into 

 the grass of the dome, whether for concealment or for protection 

 from rain I cannot say. The earliest nest was found on the 30th 

 April and the latest with fresh eggs on the 20th June 1910. The 



