566 Count T. Salvador! on a 
only way to find the nest of this species is by watching the 
parents, no easy matter. Major Cock apparently found this 
bird breeding at Sitapur, 60 miles north of Lucknow. 
This single egg which I have taken is pure white, giossless, 
and measures '55" x '^l". 
No. 921. PiPRisoMA sQUALTDUM. Thick-bUled Flower- 
pecker. 
Bull-Tit [Martiniere boys]. 
A common and permanent resident. It is to be seen 
wherever there are trees, singly or in small parties_, hunting 
for food amongst the leaves. The nest is a most lovely little 
purse^ suspended from a horizontal twig. It is a felted 
mass of fibres, cotton-down, &c., and is so covered with red 
scales of vegetable matter that it has a pink appearance. 
The whole fabric is so beautifully woven that it can be 
crumpled up in the hand without injury. The entrance is 
at the side, or rather the end. I have found it on many trees 
- — sheshum, cotton, mango, neem, babool, &c., but the first- 
named is, I think, the favourite. The eggs, two or three, 
white or pinky white, spotted and blotched with red and 
claret, are laid from February to May, the majority being 
obtained during the month of March. 
Average of 7 Lucknow eggs '62" X *44" 
Measurement of largest q^^ '64" X "45" 
„ smallest e^g '60" x '43" 
' [To be continued.] 
XXXIV. — On a New Kingfisher of the Genus Corythornis. 
By T. Salvai)ori, F.M.Z.S. 
(Plate XIII.) 
The Alcedinine genus Corijthornis is restricted to theEthiopian 
Region, and has representatives in every part of it. While 
Corythornis cristata is confined to Madagascar and the 
Comoro Islands, it appears that C. cyanostigma extends 
over the whole of the region from the Cape to Senegambia 
on the west, and to Abyssinia on the east, and also reaches 
