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British hidia). They were all taken at an elevatirn of from four'to five 

 thousand feet and in every case the parent bird was secured and identified. 



The Green Magpie— (Cissa chinensis). Two nests of this bird which is 

 decidedly rare in these hills were discovered, both in the same nullah and 

 within quarter oi: a mile of each other at about 4,000 ft. elevation. Both nests 

 were precisely similar in position and structure, being placed about ten feet 

 up in a fork aud made of good sized twigs and a few leaves externally and 

 lined with finer rootlets and grass, internal diameter five inches and two and a 

 half deep. The nests were much better made and neater than that of any 

 magpie or jay that I know of. 



The eggs (three in one neat acd four in the other) were taken on the 

 19th and 20th June and are elongated ovals rather pointed at the small end, 

 averaging 1"31 inches in length and I'S? in breadth. They are entirely jay-like 

 in markings though somewhat yellower in colour ; two of them had a few 

 yellowish-brown good sized spots scattered over them ; none showed the black 

 bair nnarkings of the jay. 



The Orange-bellied Chloropsis — (Chloronsis hardwicki). Only one neit 

 with two fresh eggs was secured though two others were watched while build- 

 ing but were deserted owing to their being discovered by Tree-pies (£). 

 himalayensis). The nests were all placed towards the extreme top of fairly 

 large trees thirty to forty feet high and were well concealed among the 

 leaves, they are slung between two twigs (not in a fork) and are very like 

 bulbuPs nests, made of fine roots and fibres with a partial lining of black 

 rootlets, measuring two inches in diameter and one and three-quarter inches 

 deep. The eggs are yellowish- white rather thickly spotted and clouded 

 especially towards the larger end with light reddish-brown, measuring *94 by 

 '62 (taken on July 8). 



The Brown-eared Bulbul — (^Hemixus flavala). This bulbul seems to come 

 up to about 4,500 feet, five nests in all were discovered but only seven eggs 

 resulted. The nests were of the ordinary bulbul type but slung like an 

 orioles though of course a very much flimsier structure ; one nest was placed 

 only eight feet up in a bramble bush but the others were from twenty to 

 forty feet up in large trees. The eggs, which were all taken between 

 June 8 — 19, are pinkish white speckled all over with pale purple and pur- 

 plish brown but chiefly at the larger end where in some eggs there is a well- 

 marked cap of colour. Length -94 to 1 inch and width "69. 



The Black-chinned Yuhina — ( Yuhina nigrimentum). A pair of these 

 birds was discovered building under an overhanging bank by the s'de of a 

 path on March 18, and three fresh eggs were taken from it on April 5. The 

 nest was slung between several small roots that hung down, the earth having 

 crumbled away, and was made of moss externally with, a little cobweb 

 plastered on and lined entirely with very fine black rootlets, an ordinary open 

 nest. Tbe eggs are greenish white spotted with brown chiefly at the larger 

 end. 

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