Nidification of some Birds from Burma. 11 



Two or three seem to Ije the usual riumber of eggs laid ; 

 they are of a pure glossless white. 



Average of nine eggs = 1*07 x*87. 



Largest = ri7x-87. 



Smallest = I'OSx '8. 



Drymocataphiis ignotus cinnamomeus. (Plate I. fig. 7.) 

 Drymocataphus cinnamomeus Rippon, Bull. B. O. C. xi. 

 1900^ p. 12; Harington^ Bombay Journ. xix. 1909^ p. 115. 



Rippon's Babbler was first described by him from the 

 southern Shan States. I found it a decidedly rare bird in the 

 Bhamo Hills at 6000 feet, only meeting with it twice^ and 

 finding only one nest; it is a shy bird inhabiting dense 

 undergrowth^ and for this reason may be commoner than 

 it seems. The nest was dome-shaped, compactly made of 

 woven grassland placed near the ground in long grass under 

 some overhanging bamboos. It contained three eggs, of 

 a pinkish ground-colour, profusely speckled all over with 

 pinkish red, which formed a zone round the larger end ; 

 they measure '81 x 56. 



Alcippe nepalensis fratercula. 



A/cippe fratercula Rippon, Bull. B. O. C. xi. 1900, p. 11 ; 

 Hariugton, Bombay Journ. xix. 1909, p. 116. 



The Shan Hills Babbler, like the last, was first described 

 by Colonel Rippon from the southern Shan States, 



On carefully going through all the specimens of A. nepal- 

 ensis (Hodgson) in the Natural History Museum, I find that 

 the only ones from Burma which agree with A. nepale?isis 

 from Assam, are those collected in the Chin Hills by Colonel 

 Rippon, while all the other so-called specimens of nepalensis 

 from Burma are fratercula. 



The distribution of these two sub-species is therefore : — 



A. nepalensis nepalensis : Nepal, Darjeeling, Bootan, Assam, 

 Munipur, Naga Hills and Chin Hills. 



A. nepalensis fratercula : Bhamo Hills, Shan States^ 

 Karennee, Toungoo Hills, Tenasserim and Tavoy. 



Although^, n. fratercula is so widely distributed in Burma, 

 I only succeeded in finding its nests at Sinlum in the Bhamo 



