THE BIRDS OF CACHAR, 401 
The eggs, which were two in number and very hard set, were of a 
dead glossless white sparsely speckled with tiny spots of light brown 
and pale neutral tint. The shell was extremely fragile. 
The nest was placed on the side of a grass-covered hill in an 
upright three-pronged fork of a stout weed. 
(10) SvurHoRA ATRISUPERCILIARIS.—The Black-browed OCrow-Tit. 
A nest was found of this little Crow-Tit on the 7th July, 1893, at Guil- 
ang. It wasa typical Crow-Tit’s nest, but the one egg it contained 
was of an uniform hedge-sparrow’s egg blue. It measured °77"> -6", 
(33) TRrocHaLopreRuM squamatumM.—The Blue-winged Laughing- 
Thrush, 
I find that what I originally said about there being no_ birds here of 
the T. melanurum type was wrong. Since then I have obtained numer- 
ous examples, and on three occasions pairs, in each of these cases the 
males having black tails and the females bronze. This showed me 
that the birds were one and the same, but as, including these three, 
IT now had five males with black tails against three with bronze, I 
began to think that the difference was sexual and the bronze tails in 
the males merely a sign of immaturity. Now, however, I have a 
female with a black tail, so that the difference can hardly be 
sexual, and, as all my other breeding females have bronze tails, 
it cannot well be that the black tail is assumed by mature birds 
only. 
44 (1) PomatorHinus Rusiconiis—The Rufous-necked Scimitar 
Babbler. 
Hume, No. 400 ; Blanford, No. 125, 
This Scimitar Babbler is scattered almost throughout the whole of N. 
Cachar, but is not common anywhere, and in most parts is very rare. 
In the Khasia Hills it is common, as it is in parts of the Naga Hills, and 
where N. Cachar adjoins these districts a good many birds may be 
met with in some years. I have obtained it at about 2,000 feet eleva- 
tion, and again at nearly 6,000. 
44(2) PomatToRHINUS STENORHYNcHUS.—The  Rusty-cheeked 
Scimitar Babbler. 
Hume, No. 405 ; Blanford, No. 128. 
Amongst a collection of birds I took home for the Hon’ble W. Roths- 
child and which I handed over to Mr. Hartert, were a large number 
