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white cocoous are often intermixed ! The exterior depth is about 2 inches, and the cavity varies in diameter 

 from 2"0 to 275, and in depth from 10 to 16. There is not uncommonly a good deal of horsehair woven in 

 the exterior surface of the cavity, and this, with the fine grass, forms a sort of lining.''' The structure is 

 usually placed on a horizontal branch, often where three or four twigs spring from it, which, Captain Hutton 

 remarks, are incorporated into its sides, the materials entirely enveloping them. It is sometimes fixed to the 

 branch by means of grass and spiders' webs. In Cashmere Dr. Henderson found the nests of these birds in 

 apple- and mulberry-trees, placed high up in small branches, and made of fine hair-like strips of bark. The 

 number of eggs usually laid is four ; the ground-colour is pinkish white or salmon-pink, more or less thickly 

 speckled, chiefly at the large end, with rather bright brownish-red spots. They average in size 0'81 by 0'6 inch. 



Genus HTPOTHYMIS. 

 Bill very broad and not compressed until near the tip ; upper mandible flattened, and the 

 lower inflated beneath ; rictal bristles long and directed forward. Wings with the 5th quill the 

 longest, the 2nd shorter than the secondaries, and the 3rd and 7th subequal. Tail equal to the 

 wing, even at the tip. Legs and feet slender ; the tarsus much longer than the middle toe, pro- 

 tected with well-developed scuta? ; outer toe longer than the inner ; claws well curved. 



