368 PEEICEOCOTUS PEREGKINUS. 



of what looked like spiders' webs ;" attached to this were the dry leaves of the taniariud-tree. The nests were 

 fixed in between two delicate forks at the extreme end of a branch near the top of the tree. The eggs, which 

 are usually three in number, are pale delicate greenish white, and they are richly marked with bright, slightly 

 brownish-red specks or blots, " which, always more numerous at the large end, have a tendency there to form 

 a mottled irregular cap." They average in size 067 inch in length by 053 in breadth. 



Genus LALAGE. 

 Bill more slender and narrower at the base than in Pericrocotus ; the culmen gently curved 

 from the base and not suddenly bent at the tip. Nasal bristles short and stiff; rictal bristles 

 scanty. Wings longer than the tail, pointed, and with the 3rd and 4th quills subequal and longest ; 

 the 1st longer than in the last genus. Tail moderately long, rounded at the tip. Tarsus about 

 equal to the middle toe and its claw, and shielded with broad scutse. Toes slender ; the middle 

 toe equal to the inner with its claw. 





