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they are minutely stippled with reddish at the larger end, where the 

 marks form a sort of blurred cap ; these marks or stipplings being prac- 

 tically non-existent towards the smaller end. One egg also has a 

 very fine, straggly line, of a red-brown, or clotted-blood colour, on the 

 cap. The two eggs measure *63" X *52" and '64" X '52." 



Another egg brought to me, said to belong to this fly-catcher, was 

 much the same, but the freckles even more blurred, and nearly equally 

 distributed over the whole surface of the egg. This egg measured 

 '67 " X '54". All three eggs are broad ovals, decidedly compressed and 

 pointed towards the small end. The texture is smooth, but porous and 

 not glossy, and the shell is also extremely fragile. 



(231) H. feekuginea.— The Ferruginous Fly-catcher. 

 Oates, No. 559 } Hume, No. 299. 

 Like the last, an uncommon bird, but resident wherever found. 

 Of the three nests I have taken, I have only got full descriptive notes 

 of one. This was taken quite close to my bungalow at Gunjong, and 

 was found in a small hollow in a dead stump which stood in a nullah 

 well overgrown with bamboos, trees and thick bushes ; outwardly the 

 nest was of no shape, fitting the hollow in which it was found, only 

 the side towards the opening being finished off with a neatly rounded 

 edge. The receptacle for the eggs was about two inches in diameter 

 by rather less than an inch deep. 



With the exception of a few dead leaves at the bottom of the hole, which 

 probably only got there by accident, the whole of the material used was 

 moss, the lining and all being composed of scraps from 1" to 3" long. 



The eggs were just what would be expected, and may be matched by 

 many of Cyarnis rubeculoides and C. tickelli, etc. ; but are more boldly 

 marked than the majority of these birds' eggs. The ground-colour is a 

 pale greenish-stone, and they are distinctly freckled and speckled with 

 reddish-brown. In shape they are rather long, obtuse ovals, and they 

 measure "77" x *54", "78" X *56" and *74'' X *55". 



(232) Siphia Steophiata.— The Orange-gorgeted Fly-catcher, 



Oates, No. 560 ; Hume, No. 319. 

 Only an occassional visitant. 



A pair of these little fly-catchers used to frequent my garden all 

 through the winter of 1890, and I then often noticed them sitting on 

 the ground. Nearly every morning and evening they might be seen 



