682 Notes on the Nidification of Indian Birds. [Dec. 



robbing several nests, — the plumage of the young birds agreeing exactly 

 with his published description. 



No. 22. — " Dendrocitta sinensis " (Gray.) 



Crypsirina sinensis. (Hodg. Gray.) 

 Pica sinensis. (Gray.) 

 Corvus sinensis. (Daud.) 



Occurs abundantly about 5,000 feet during summer ; more sparingly 

 at greater elevations, — and in the winter it leaves the mountains for the 

 Doon. It breeds in May, on the 27th of which month I took one nest 

 with 3 eggs and another with 3 young ones. The nest is like that of 

 Psilorhinus occipitalis, being composed externally of twigs and lined 

 with finer materials, according to the situation, — one nest taken in a 

 deep glen by the side of a stream was lined with the long fibrous leaves 

 of "mare's tail" which grew abundantly by the water's edge ; another 

 taken much higher on the hill side and away from the water, was lined 

 with tendrils and fine roots. The nest is placed rather low, generally 

 about 8 or 10 feet from the ground, sometimes at the extremity of a 

 horizontal branch, sometimes in the forks of young bushy oaks. The 

 eggs somewhat resemble those of the foregoing species, but are paler 

 and less spotted, being of a dull greenish ash, with brown blotches and 

 spots somewhat thickly clustered at the larger end. Diameter 1 T ^ X 

 \\ inches. Shape ordinary. 



No. 23.— " Geocichla citrina." (Blyth.) 



Petrocossyphus citrinus. (Gray's Cat.) 

 Turdus citrinus. (Lath.) 

 P. pelodes. (Hodg.) young. 



Arrives at an elevation of 5,000 feet about the end of May and re- 

 turns to the plains in autumn ; it breeds in June, placing the nest in 

 the forky branches of lofty trees, such as oaks and wild cherry ; exter- 

 nally it is sometimes composed of coarse dry grasses somewhat neatly 

 interwoven on the sides, — but hanging down in long straggling ends 

 from the bottom. "Within this is a layer of green moss and another of 

 fine diy woody stalks of small plants and a scanty lining at the bottom 

 of fine roots. The eggs are 3 to 4 in number, pale greenish freckled 



