6 Major H. H. Harington on the 



Suthora Ibrunnea. (Plate I. fig. 3,) 



Sulhora brunnea Anderson ; Oates^ Fauna, i. 1889^ p. 68 

 footnote ; Harington, Bombay Journ. xvi. 1906, p. 740; 

 xix. 1909, p. 111. 



Anderson's Crow-Tit is a very common little bird in the 

 Bhamo Hills, above about 5000 feet. I first found its nest 

 in May, 1905, when I visited Sinlum ; again in 1908 1 found 

 it very plentiful and got several nests. They are very noisy 

 little birds when anyone approaches their nesting-site, and 

 unless the bird is actually seen quitting its nest, it is almost 

 impossible to find the nest, so well is it concealed. I found 

 the best plan was to mark any spots where birds had been 

 particularly anxious, and to return quietly later on, when in 

 all probability the bird would be seen hurriedly leaving. 

 The nests are generally placed well down in a clump of grass 

 or reeds, within about two feet of the ground ; occasionally 

 they are built on brambles in long grass. They are very 

 compact and cup-shaped, composed of grass and bamboo 

 leaves with a little moss, and lined, with fine grass and horse- 

 hair. Three, rarely two or four, seem to be the complement 

 of eggs, which are of a pale spotless blue. 



Average of nine eggs = "64 x "52. 

 Largest = -69 x "53. 

 Smallest = '60 x -50. 

 Dryonastes sannio. 



Dryonastes sannio (Swinhoe) ; Gates, Fauna, i. 1889, 

 p. 76 ; Stuart Baker, Ibis, 1906, p. 90. 



The White-browed Laughing-Thrush is the commonest 

 bird of this family along the eastern hills of Burma, being 

 equally plentiful at Sinlum, Maymyo, and in the southern 

 Shan States in general, from 3000 feet upwards. Its nest 

 and eggs have been described by Mr. Stuart Baker from 

 Assam, and by myself and others from Burma, in the 

 Bombay Journal. A most interesting fact, however, about 

 this bird's eggs is the diiferent types it lays, a point 

 not alluded to by Mr. Stuart Baker. They vary from a 

 pale blue-green to a skim-milk white, and to a glossy china- 

 white, many of the latter having rough lines encrusted on 



