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appeared to be no nest proper, the eggs being simply laid at 

 the end of the tunnel, which was nowhere more than 6 or 8 

 inches below ground and as nearly as possible horizontal. 

 Mr. DAVISON, to whom I gave the eggs as soon as I got to 

 camp, identified them as those of a bee-eater and undoubtedly 

 of Nyctiornis amicta. 



The dimensions of the eggs are as follows :— 

 1.25 X [.15 inches. 

 1.22 x 1. 10 inches. 

 The eggs are now in the Singapore Museum. 



H. J. K. 



NEST AND EGGS OF HENICURUS 

 RUFICAPILLUS, TEMM. 

 On the 23rd July, 1891, while out collecting in the neigh- 

 bourhood of our camp at Kuala Tahan (Pahang Ulu) and 

 looking out for birds up a small streamlet flowing through 

 the thick jungle, I found a nest of Henicurus ruficapillus with 

 three eggs in it. The hen bird was sitting on the nest, and 

 flew off on my approach. I did not get a shot at her. The 

 nest, which is shallow, cup-shaped, and 6 or 7 inches in diame- 

 ter, is made entirely of moss and lined with the skeletons of 

 leaves. It was built on to the side of an almost perpendicular 

 rock, very much after the fashion of that of the water ouzel. 

 Nest and eggs are now in the Singapore Museum. 



The eggs are white spotted and blotched with light red and 



pale purplish red, the spots being larger and concentrated 



into a ring round the larger end. One egg was broken while 



blowing, the dimensions of the other two are as follows : — 



0.97 x 0.66 inches. 



0.90 X 0.68 inches. 



H. J. K. 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF PETROSAVIA 

 IN PERAK. 

 During a short trip to Perak in February last, I collected 

 a quantity of a small yellow saprophytic plant growing spo- 

 radically among the vegetation along the banks of the road 



