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4 to 6 inches off the earth itself. The materials were principally 
dead leaves, and the description I have already given of the nest 
of Corythocichla striata would stand equally well for these ; but 
they are on the whole, perhaps, rather more bulky. The full comple- 
ment of eggs is, I think, four, but I have taken one or two nests with 
only three eggs and one with only two, all of which showed signs of 
- incubation. They are in appearance the same as the eggs of S. dubius 
described by Davison (Hume’s Nest and Hggs, vol. I, p. 117). The 
eround-colour is white with, in some eggs, a faint brownish or greenish 
tinge, and they are marked much in the same manner as many eggs of 
Pyctorhis sinensis, There are numerous clouds and smudges of pale 
vandyke-brown, and a few coarse marks and irregular lines of a dark 
shade of the same, beside which there are usually a good many secondary 
marks of pale neutral tint confined chiefly to the larger end. The sur- 
face is very fine and close, and the shell strong, often with a slight gloss. 
In shape they differ from those described of S. dubzus, for they are very 
regular ovals, the difference between the two ends being sometimes 
hardly perceptible and seldom very distinct. Twenty eggs average 
-83" x -61!. They breed in the latter end of April, May, and June. 
(69) S. RUFIGULARIS.—The Red-throated Tit Babbler. 
Oates, No. 180; Hume, No. 618 Bis. 
I shot a male of this species in May, 1891, just on the borders of 
Manipur. 
(70) Srrriparus crixeREUS.—The Dusky-green Tit Babbler. 
Oates, No. 181 ; Hume, No. 620. 
Legs fleshy brown or reddish ; irides reddish-brown. A rare little 
bird, which I have only found in the Laisung Valley and at Hungrum, 
generally feeding in scrub jungle. Mr. Hole has also two or three 
specimens in his collection which he obtained at the foot of the hills in 
low brushwood. They go about in small parties and are very active ~ 
and quick, but are very shy, moving away at once at the sound of any- 
body approaching them. 
T have taken two nests, which were simply miniatures of those of 
Scheniparus ; both were placed amongst the roots of thick plants, but not 
actually on the ground itself. In one nest the three eggs were ready to 
hatch ; in the other there were also three, butso hard set that it was with 
