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and then released flew out of my hands on to the ground and began 
to make off in long bounding hops, using every stone and turf on its 
way to assist in its concealment. The only note I have heard it 
utter is a soft rippling chir-chir, and this sound it seems to make use 
of on all and every occasion—when calling to its mate, disturbed off 
its nest, resisting being caught, or when quietly feeding. 
(58) CoRyTHocIcHLA sTRIATA.—The Streaked Babbler, 
Oates, No. 154. 
Upper mandible dark brown, lower plumbeous, darkish at the base, 
pale elsewhere, mouth creamy-slate colour. Irides dark red. During 
the hot weather and rains this bird seems to keep to the higher peaks, . 
descending lower during the cold season. It isa very rare bird, and 
such a shy one also that it is impossible to find out much about its 
habits. Like C. drevicauda, it never makes use of its wings unless 
absolutely compelled, and itis so sharp and active on its legs that 
these alone are generally sufficient to carry it out of sight before one 
has even time to shoot at it. I have been very fortunate in obtaining 
several of its nests and also in obtaining nests which had eggs in them. 
All those 1 have taken (six) or had brought to me have been of the 
same type, viz., very deep cups with one side prolonged and project- 
ing over, making it almost a domed nest ; indeed in one or two cases 
it might have been termed such. The materials consist principally 
of dead leaves, a few fern fronds, or rarely a few scraps of grass. 
These are bound together with fern roots and moss, and the lining is 
composed merely of a few more dead leaves. All the materials used 
are of a dark brown tint, and so far I do not think I have seen a single 
light-coloured nest. The materials are fairly well put together, but 
from their nature they stand but little handling and soon fall to 
“pieces when once removed from the original position, They are 
placed either at the root of a tree, below some log, or in a cluster of 
plants ina hollow on some bank, and one was found at the foot of a 
survey pillar wedged in between two of the stones which formed its 
base. Wherever they are, I believe they are always placed actually 
on the ground, not above it in bushes, &e. 
The full complement of eggs seems to be four, but I have found a 
nest containing three and another only two eggs showing signs of in- 
