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still a great many more nesting species within a radius of a few 

 miles of May my o. 



No. 4. Corvus macrorhynchus, (Wagl.) — (The Jungle Crow.) 



Very common, and should be kept down if the residents of Maymyo ever 

 wish to get a decent head of game near the station, as the Jungle Crow is 

 the worst poacher of the family, which is very well represented round 

 Maymyo, and they must take a big toll of eggs and young birds. 



No. 8. Corvus insolens, (Hume). — (The House Crow.) 



Not so numerous as the above, keeping entirely to the station. 



No. 12. Urocissa occipitalis, (Blyth.) — (The Red-billed Blue Magpie.) 



Fairly common ; I did not find any nests. 



No. 18. Dendrocitta himalayensis, (Blyth.) — (The Himalayan Tree-Pie.) 



Plentiful, I think I have also seen V. rufa. 



No. 25. Garrulus leucotis, (Hume.) — (The Burmese Jay.) 



The only other record, I believe, of the nesting of the Burmese Jay is a 

 short note by Mr. K. C. Macdonald, sent by me to The Journal. 



During former visits to Maymyo in the non-breeding season I found the 

 Burmese Jay to be very plentiful in certain parts of the jungle and so 

 always had hopes when opportunity occurred of procuring their eggs, and 

 during my last visit my hopes were realised beyond expectation. 



On the 13th April at Thandoung, the last stage in to Maymyo, I made my 

 first attempt at birds' nesting, finding nests of M. burmanicus, Burmese 

 red-vented Bulbul, G. pectoralis, Black-gorgeted Laughing Thrush, C. affinis, 

 Burmese Roller and B. liventer, Rufous-winged Buzzard-Eagle. In the 

 same bit of jungle as the last I was fortunate in finding my first nest of the 

 Burmese Jay, G. leucotis, with the parent bird sitting very tight, in fact not 

 moving, until my man began to ascend the sapling. The nest was placed 

 about 10 feet from the ground and very conspicuous, and contained four 

 incubated eggs, two of which were addled. 



On the 30th April, Mr. P. F. Wickham arrived at my camp after we had 

 finished musketry for the day, so we at once started out to try our luck in 

 the neighbouring jungles, especially devoting ourselves to the Crest Bunting 

 (M. melanicterus), which was common, but with no success. As Wickham 

 had to return to Maymyo that evening we made an early start in that 

 direction, trying some likely oak jungle with hopes of finding a Jay's nest. 

 We were soon rewarded by first seeing a Jay and then two or three old 

 nests. Then at last my orderly spotted a nest on which the old bird was 

 sitting, which on investigation contained a nice clutch of four eggs.' On 

 resuming our hunt we were rewarded in finding another nest close by which 

 contained three eggs. We found two more nests in the same patch of 

 forest, each having two eggs apiece. These we left in the hopes of getting 

 complete clutches. Of these four nests three were in saplings from 10 to 



