436 COPSYCHUS SAULARLS. 



ripening plaintains, was a shapeless structure of grass and dried weeds. The eggs are from two to four in 

 number, and are broad short ovals in shape, of a pale bluish-green or very light greenish ground-colour, 

 profusely speckled and blotched throughout, but most thickly at the large end, with bluish grey and two 

 shades of umber-brown, with a few blackish blots and occasionally short streaks of deep sepia at the latter 

 part. Some eggs are freckled uniformly all over with light brown, and others are very sparingly spotted. 

 They measure from - 91 to 096 iuch in length, and from 0'65 to 075 in breadth. In Burmah, Mr. Oates 

 writes, " This bird almost invariably selects a large hollow bamboo, many of which are generally to be found 

 lying about the verandahs and cucumber-framings of the native houses, and places its nest about 2 feet inside 

 the entrance." 



Genus CTTTOCINCLA. 

 Bill slenderer and more compressed than in Copsyclim. Tail with the central feathers elon- 

 gated and the laterals much graduated. Legs and feet somewhat slenderer than in Copsychus. 



