CHEYSOCOLAPTES EESTIVUS. 193 



writes that he saw and shot three which were busily engaged in searching the branches of a cotton-tree 

 [Bombax malabaricum) . 



Nidification. — I am unable to give any information concerning the breeding-habits of this species. 

 Mr. Parker observed a pair in July, engaged in making a hole in a tree standing in a submerged tank-bed, but 

 was unable to get the eggs. 



Subfam. GECININ^. 



Bill wider at the base than in the last subfamily ; culmen more curved, the lateral ridge 

 slight, in some genera absent ; gonys short. Feet with the outer posterior toe shorter than the 

 outer anterior one ; hind toe small, obsolete in some, 



2 c 



