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lie caused the stump to break off with a crash just above the eggs 

 which were left exposed. These were frightfully hardset, live and 

 struggling chicks in all three. The shell, however, of this egg is 

 very thick and strong, so that by making a huge hole in each I got 

 the chicks out, and by patching up the eggs with paper made fair 

 specimens of them. The embryo chicks confirmed the coolie's identi- 

 fication, the trogon feet and broad bills being unmistakable. The 

 eggs are perfect spheres of a very pale buff colour (exactly the tint of 

 a bronze-wing's egg) and very glossy. They were resting on the bare 

 wood. Dimensions H" V ^i u 



16 ^ 16- 



On the 9th I found another nest. Eiding round the work I saw a 

 H. fasciatus hen fly out of a dead stump standing in the cocoa, about 20 

 yards from the jungle boundary. The hole was about 18 feet up ; the 

 stump was in a state of crumbling rottenness, and would have come 

 down with the weight of a baby« However, a strong young jak-tree 

 sapling grew within 3 feet of the stump, and by climbing up this my 

 horse-keeper was able to put his hand into the nest-hole. To my 

 disappointment it contained two young ones, lying on the bare wood 

 only an inch or two below the entrance, which was about 4 inches in 

 diameter, round and even. On the 10th, I concealed myself in a clump 

 of cardamoms and watched the nest with binoculars for an hour, 

 during which time only once did a bird, the male, visit the nest with 

 food. While feeding the young he clung to the lower edge of the hole 

 with his tail pressed against the tree as a support ; he then flew to a 

 tree about 50 yards off, where he sat perfectly motionless with his head 

 drawn in between his shoulders all the remaining time I watched. 

 The hen never put in an appearance at alL The young trogons seem 

 easily satisfied in the way of food ! However, there were only two of 

 them, and the insect brought while I watched was a rather large 

 one — a moth I think. 



I heard of another nest of this species in May only about 5 feet 

 from the ground, but as the native who told me of it had caught the 

 female in the hole and curried her and her two eggs, the cause of 

 science was not much advanced in this case. 



38. Arithracoceros coronatus^ Bodd., the Crowned Hornbill.— -Not 

 uncommon at 1,000 feet elevation ; in the N.-E, monsoon I have seen 

 it up as high as 2,500 feet. It is extremely wary and hra-d to shoot. 



