MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 599 



(679.) Merula protomomel^na — The Black-busted Ouzel, 

 Two nests at Ganguoi (5,500 feet) on 15th May 1902, one with 3 eggs the 

 other with 4, in both cases well incubated. Nest placed at the end of a 

 branch about 12 feet ofE the ground and composed of moss and grass with 

 plenty of mud, in fact the aests were very heavy for their size, lined 

 with fine grass. Eggs greenish with brown spots and daubs, measur- 

 ing 1-07 X -8, 



(975.) Iyngipicus canicapillus— The Burmese Pigmy Woodpecker. 

 On the 15th April 1902 my orderly brought me a fully fledged young one 

 and one addled egg which ho had found in a small hole in a tree. Egg 

 measuring '8 X '64 inchis. 



(1104.) CucuLUS CANORUS — The Cuckoo. 

 I first heard this bird on the 6th of March. The majority have all gone 

 now (I heard one calling this morning), I got 4 eggs this season and all 

 found in the common Pied Bush Chats' nests, the eggs like those at home, 

 white with pink spots. 



H. H. HARINGTON, Capt. 

 Taunggyi, 

 Upper Burma, lith June 1902. 



No. IX.— FOOD OF THE KBAIT. 



In Volume IX, page 499, I observe a note on this subject by Mr. W. H. 

 Traill, and as such information is always of interest to some, I take the 

 opportunity of adding my mite. On the 11th February while out with 

 Major Davis not very far from this Station, he came on a Bungarus 

 fasciatus in a " paddy " field, the fore half of the body was down a hole, 

 so Major Davis put a charge of snipe shot into the exposed portion, 

 which however did not kill him at once as he endeavoured to drag the 

 damaged half down the hole. A Burman, however, immediately seized 

 his tail and dragged him out when he promptly disgorged a snake, 

 which proved to be a Tropidonotus piscator, evidently only recently- 

 swallowed. Length 30." The B. fasciatus (a beautiful specimen) mea- 

 sured 60". 



The Burmese have some queer ideas about the B. fasciatus, some entertain 

 the opinion that he is quite innocuous, others, that though poisonous his dis- 

 position is so mild that he can rarely be provoked to bite, while a few are 

 disposed to think that it is not such a difficalt matter to induce him to 

 bite and, that if he does succeed in getting hold the results are generally 

 fatal. 



GEO. H. EVANS, 



Vety. Major. 



Rangoon, \st April 1902, 



