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similar to that of Z. palpehrosa^ and lays the same spotless 

 pale blue eggs. 



Hypsipetes concolor. 



Hypsipetes concolor Blytli ; Gates, Fauna^ i. 1889, p. 261. 



The Burmese Black Bulbul is fairly plentiful down the 

 eastern side of Burma, and does not ascend the hills to any 

 great height. I found one nest at Thandoung, near Toungoo, 

 containing two incubated eggs, on the 14th of May. This 

 was placed near the top of a small sapling at about eight 

 feet from the ground, and was rather a massive nest for a 

 Bulbul. The eggs are similar to those of H. psaroides, from 

 the Himalaya. 



Pycnonotiis xanthorrhous. (Plate I. fig. 8.) 



Pycnonotus xanthorrhous Anderson ; Gates, Fauna, i. 

 1889, p. 286 footnote ; Harington, Bombay Journ. xvi. 

 1906, p. 741, xix. 1909, p. 122. 



Anderson^s Bulbul was first described from Yunnan ; 

 since then it has been found to be common along the eastern 

 iiills of Burma above 5000 feet; it prefers the open hill- 

 sides covered with brambles, feeding on the wild raspberries 

 Avhich grow in such profusion. I found it particularly 

 plentiful at Sinlum, and procured several nests. These were 

 never more than two ov three feet from the ground, and 

 were generally placed on brambles in long grass, and I do 

 not remember finding a single nest not placed in long grass. 

 Three seem to be the usual number of eggs laid, occasionally 

 only two ; these have all the variations peculiar to the Bulbul 

 family, but are all invariably very glossy. 



Average of nine eggs = "80 x •62. 

 Largest = -83 x -63. 



Smallest = •78x-63. 



Sitta nagaensis. (Plate I. fig. 10.) 



Sitta na.gaensis Godw.-Aust. ; Gates, Fauna, i. 1889, 

 p. 302; Harington, Bombay Journ. xix. 1909, p. 122. 



Godwiu-Austeu^'s Nuthatch was first discovered in the 

 Naga Hills ; it is very plentiful in the hills on the eastern side 

 of Burma, above 5000 feet, below which its place is taken by 



