16 ]\]fijor H. IT. Harington on the 



S. neglecta. I think it must have two broodsj as I had a 

 nest containing four fresh eggs, together with the parent 

 bird, brought me in April, and in the beginning of June saw 

 a pair building. The nest was said to have been in a hole 

 of a tree. The eggs are of the regular family type, white 

 profusely spotted with red. They measure '77 x '58. 



UrocicMa reptata oatesi. (Plate I. fig. 11.) 



Urocichla oatesi Rippon, Bull. B. O. C. xiv. 1904, p. 83 ; 

 Venning, Bombay Journ. xxi. 1912, p. 622. 



I am indebted to Capt. Venning for the eggs and parent 

 bird of the Chin Hills Wren, and quote his description from 

 the Bombay Journal. 



" One nest was obtained on the 30th of April, on a sloping 

 bank of dried grass beneath some trees. The bird was shot 

 as it left the nest. The nest was a large oval-shaped domed 

 structure, composed o£ an outer layer of dead leaves, canna 

 leaves, coarse grass, etc. ; insiJe was a layer of grass stems, 

 fibres, and a little moss, the cup being lined up to the 

 level of the entrance with a plaster of about one-sixteenth of 

 an inch thick composed, as far as I could determine, of a 

 substance which looked like chewed thistle-down or chewed 

 grass. The bottom of the nest when first found was quite 

 moist from contact with the damp ground. The dimensions 

 of the whole were, exterior height six inches, diameter back 

 to front five inches, side to side four inches. Entrance near 

 the top about two inches across by one and a half high. 

 Interior dimensions two inches each way,, depth of cup 

 inside from edge of entrance about one inch. Eggs three 

 in number, measuring "73 X "6, "72 x "6, and "69 X '59 ; they 

 were a dull white, sparingly freckled with reddish and faint 

 purple.'" 



Urocichla reptata sinlumensis. 



Urocichla sinlumejisis Harington, Ann. Mag. N. H. (8) 

 ii. 1908, p. 216; id., Bombay Journ. xix. 1909, p. 123. 



At Sinlum, on the 29th of April, 1905, a Kachin brought 

 me in a nest containing three eggs which I could not 

 identify, the nest being of a type entirely new to me, so I 



