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I went down into the valleys when he was easily found, though 

 I never found the nest. 



[A winter visitor ; breeds in the hills and in China. Not re- 

 corded by Col. Rippon from Mt. Victoria, but has been procured 

 in other parts of Burma. — H. H. H.] 



TURDINiE. 



(698j Small-billed Mountain-Thrush, Oreocincla dcmma. — 

 One specimen was shot in 1909. No nests. 



[Recorded by Col. Rippon, — H. H. H.] 



(704) Large Brown Thrush, Zoothera monticola. — ^One nest 

 of this species was found on 15th May 1910. The bird was shot 

 as it left its nest on 19th May. The nest was found about 15 

 feet from the ground in an elm sapling growing by a stream on 

 the border of a strip of thickish jungle. It consisted of a large 

 lump of earth for a basis, intermingled with sticks and fibres and 

 with a little moss worked into the outside, the whole being scantily 

 lined with some whitish roots or fibres. It was 4 inches across 

 the interior and 1^ inches deep giving it a shallow bowl shape 

 inside, but the whole nest was about one foot in diameter. The 

 whole structure was placed in a fork of the tree. The eggs, three 

 in number, were pale bluish green with a dark cap of brownish red 

 over the larger end, the whole with bold spots and smudges of the 

 same colour. Measurements 1-28 x -84, 1-28 x '83 and 1*27 x 

 •87. 



[Not recorded from Burma before, and I believe this is the first 

 record of its nesting. — H. H. H.] 



FRINGILLID^. 

 Fringillin^. 

 (779) Tree Sparrow, Passer mooitanus. — Common. 



Motacillid^. 



(826) White Wagtail, Motacilla alba. — A common winter 

 visitor. No nests found. 



(847) Indian Pipit, Anthus rufidus. — One nest taken on 

 IBtli April and the bird netted on the nest. Eggs three, one of 

 which was found on the ground outside the nest when the nest 



