8 Major H. H. Harington on the 



After this I found other nests and procured the parent "birds 

 with them^ so there can be no doabt that T. sharpei lays 

 eggs of a totally different type^ so far as is known at present, 

 from those of any other member of the same family." 



The nests were of the usual type, composed of bamboo 

 leaves and grass_, and were placed in bushes or against the 

 side of trees. The eggs, of which two or three seem to be 

 the usual complement, are very remarkable, being a dead 

 white, either glossless or having a faint gloss, and are 

 spotted either with dark red or black spots, a few having 

 u.nderlying purplish marks ; in fact they are extremely like 

 Orioles' eggs, though the texture is somewhat less smooth 

 and close. 



Average of eight eggs = 1"13 x -82. 



Largest = 1"3 x '8. 



Smallest =1-0 x -8. 



Trochalopterum phceniceum ripponi. (Plate I. fig. 15.) 

 Trochalopterum ripponi Gates, Bull. B. O. C. xi. 1900, 

 p. 10 ; Harington, Bombay Journ. xix. 1909, p. 114. 



Rippon^s Laughing-Thrush was first described from the 

 southern Shan States, and is fairly common in the Bhamo 

 Hills, above 5000 feet. It is very noisy and a great skulker, 

 but being very inquisitive is easily called up and shot. It 

 builds a compact nest of the usual type, which it places from 

 three to five feet from the ground in a sapling, thorn-bush, or 

 clump of bamboos, and generally lays three eggs, occasionally 

 only two ; these are similar to those of T. phceniceum, being 

 a beautiful pale blue, spotted and streaked with numerous 

 fine curly lines of a dark red. 



Average of six eggs = 1*01 x "75. 

 Largest =1-1 x-72. 

 Smallest = I'O x 76. 



Bahax lanceolatus victoriae. 



Babax victoriae Rippon, Bull. B. O. 0. xv. 1905, p. 97 ; 

 V^enning, Bombay Journ. xxi. 1912, p. 622. 

 The nest of the Mt. Victoria Babbler was procured. 



