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The eggs were four in each nest, very broad ovals and either pure 

 white or white with a few very pale pink spots. They gave the 

 following measurements :— 



Largest egg '61" x '48" 



Smallest egg -56" X -46" 



Average of 8 eggs ,,... -60" X "47" 



12 (850). Anthus rosaceus. — Hodgson's Pipit. 



This species is fairly common in the Harke Dun, but I only suc- 

 ceeded in finding one nest. It was placed on a steep grassy slope at 

 about 12,000 feet and was of the usual pipit type, a shallow cup of 

 grass lined with hair and finer grasses, well concealed beneath a tuft of 

 grass. It contained 3 hard-set eggs which are whitish, densely marked 

 and speckled chiefly at the larger end with very dark grey. They 

 might easily pass, except in size, for eggs of the common sparrow. 

 ■ Two of the eggs measured *88" X "64" and *87" X "63" respectively. 



13 (603). Cheltdorhynx hypoxanthum. — The Yellow-bellied 



Flycatcher; 



The nest of this lively little fantail seems rarely to have been found. 

 Jerdon had the nest brought to him at Darjeeling after the young 

 had flown, and Hodgson has figured the nest and eggs. Mr. R. H. 

 Thompson, too, saw the nest in the Kumaon Bhabar, but never took 

 down the eggs. This bird is fairly common at high elevations in the 

 Tons Valley during the hot weather, frequenting at that season forests 

 of the high level silver-fir and birch at about 10,000 to 12,000 feet. 

 It visits the plains in the cold weather but never remains there, or even 

 low down on the hills, to breed, retiring to the higher ranges near the 

 snows for that purpose. This only refers to Dehra Dun and the 

 neighbouring hills, which is peculiar, for it must be borne in mind 

 that Mr. Thompson found it breeding in the Kumaon Bhabar (the dry 

 sub-Himalayan tract west of the river Sarda at an elevation of about 

 1,000 ft. only above the sea). On June 11th, I noticed a willow warbler 

 {Phjlloscopus proregulus) enter its nest high up on a bough of a silver- 

 fir. My orderly was at once told off to scale the tree, which he did, 

 bringing down the nest and eggs ki safety. While he was thus 

 engaged, I noticed a pair of yellow-bellied fantails in the same tree 

 which seemed much upset by the intrusion. I watched them carefully 

 and just as my man reached the ground I saw one of the fantails, 



