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the Himalayas up to a height of 5000 feet, or possibly more. The nest is somewhat loosely 

 built of small sticks and lined with fine roots, and is usually placed high up in the fork of a 

 tree, or in a parasitical shrub that is frequently found growing on mango-trees. The eggs, 

 usually four in number, and occasionally even five, are oval in shape, and elongated rather than 

 broad and stout, in colour of a delicate bluish white, occasionally, but seldom, marked with 

 small specks of reddish brown, averaging in size T55 by T22 inch. Mr. Zarudny, who found it 

 nesting on the Murghab, in Transcaspia, describes the eggs as occasionally bluish white, but 

 usually whitish spotted and blotched with brown and reddish brown. I have several eggs in my 

 collection received from India, all of which are uniform bluish white, without any spots or 

 markings. 



The specimens figured are the two males above described, and are in my own collection. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined, besides the series in the British 

 Museum, the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. JE. Dresser, 

 a, £ . Astrabad, April 24th (Dr. G. Radde). b, £ . India (A. 0. Hume), c, <?. Southern India (Whitely), 



