11 j\Iajor H. H. Harington on the 



were very flimsy affairs, made entirely of some black roots. 

 The eggs, the usual number of which seems to be two, are 

 very much like small editions of Copsychus saularis, being 

 of a greenish-blue ground-colour profusely spotted, naore 

 especially at the larger end, with umber-brown spots. 

 Average of seven eggs = •7(S x "60. 



Largest = 'SOx-CO. 



Smallest = "75 x '58. 



Staphidia striata. 



Staphidia striata (Blyth) ; Gates, Fauna, i. 1889, p. 206 : 

 Bingham, Ibis, 1903, p. 590 ; Cook, Bombay Journ. xxi. 

 1912, p. 670. 



Tickell's Staphidia is a little bird which is very rare in 

 collections, and of which there is no good description. It 

 was originally obtained in Tenasserim, and was procured 

 later in Karennee; it is fairly common at Thandoung near 

 Toungoo. 



The following short description may be of use to others, 

 as the descriptions in the ' Fauna ' and the Catalogue of 

 Birds in the British Museum are rather conflicting. 



General colour above dull olive-brown ; head darker with 

 a greyish tinge, in some specimens a sooty-brown. The 

 feathers of the head, mantle and back with white shaft- 

 stripes. Ear-coverts dull chestnut, sides of the neck faintly 

 tinged with the same. Wings and tail the same colour as 

 the back but darker. The three outer tail-feathers broadly 

 tipped with white. Underparts dull greyish white. 

 Length about 5, wing and tail 2'37. 



Its nesting was first described by Colonel Bingham, and 

 subsequently by Mr. J. P. Cook from Thandoung, where I 

 also procured its nest, which is always placed in a hole in a 

 bank. The eggs are a pale bluish-white, boldly spotted 

 with brown and purple. 



Zosterops simplex. 



Zosterops simplex Swinhoe ; Oates, Fauna, i. 1889, p. 215. 



Swinhoe's White-eye is plentiful up at Maymyo, and very 



partial to gardens. It builds a small cradle-like nest. 



