1,2 jNIajor H. H. Harington on the 



Hills. These were all placed in buslies vvitliiii three or foiir 

 feet of the ground ; they were cup-shaped, and composed of 

 fern leaves and grass, lined with some red fibre. Three nests 

 were found in April and May at Sinlum, one containing four, 

 and two, containing each two incubated egg^. These were 

 all of the same type, having a white ground-colour, spotted 

 all over with numerous rusty-red spots. Mr. Stuart Baker 

 informs me he has received others from Burma, which have 

 all the typical variations of those of A. nepalensis from Assam. 

 Eo-o^s from Bhamo measure from '87 x "58 to '77 X '57. 



Stachyrhidopsis ruficeps hhamoensis. (Plate I. fig. 13.) 

 Stachyridopsis bhamoensis Harington, Ann. Mag. N. H. 

 (8) ii. 1908, p. 245; id., Bombay Journ. xix. 1909, p. 116. 



This Red-capped Babbler is a very common little bird in 

 the Bhamo Hills, and inhabits dense undergrowth ; it is 

 very noisy and fussy during the breeding season, if any 

 one invades its own particular bit of jungle. It builds an 

 untidy retort-shaped nest entirely of bamboo leaves ; this 

 is well concealed in a clump of overhanging long grass, and 

 unless the bird is actually seen leaving, almost impossible 

 to find. I came across several nests at the end of April and 

 beginning of May. The eggs are a pure white with a few 

 pale reddish spots which more or less form a zone round 

 the larger end ; occasionally pure white eggs are laid. 

 Three seem to be the usual number in one nest, but some- 

 times four are met with. 



Average of seven eggs = '65 x •52. 

 Largest = "69 x "5. 



Smallest = ■61X-55. 



Schceniparns duhius intermeiius. (Plate I. figs. 6, 9.) 

 Schoeniparus intermedius Rippon, Bull. B. 0. C. xi. 1900, 

 p. 11 ; Harington, Bombay Journ. xix. 1909, p. 117. 



Rippon's Tit-Babbler was first described from the southern 

 Shan States ; the birds from the Bhamo Hills are intei'- 

 mediate between S. mandelli and S. intermedius , but much 

 nearer the latter. They are very plentiful in the Bhamo 

 Hills, building a loose dome-shaped nest, on or near the 



