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A nest of this species known as the Burong hujan-hujan was found 

 at Mabek, on July 22nd, in secondary jungle, suspended from the projecting 

 limb of a small tree, about eight feet from the ground, and looking like a 

 mass of debris left there by a flood. The nesting-chamber was formed in 

 the upper portion of an elongate oval, about 270 mm. long, and 360 mm. 

 in its greatest diameter, and was entered by a circular hole furnished with an 

 eave. The materials were palm fibres, twigs, creepers and aerial roots with 

 a few leaves, the inside was neatly lined with grass, and the eggs, which 

 were three in number, were deposited on a bed of fresh, green leaves. In 

 shape the eggs were slightly elongate ovals, the shell being rather dull, and 

 of a pinky-white colour, thickly covered with dark terra-cotta-brown blotches 

 fairly evenly distributed, though they form a rather thick zone towards the 

 larger end of one egg. Dimensions : A, 26-5 x 19 ; B, 27 x 19*75 ; 

 C, 27-5 x 19 mm. 



114. Corydon sumatranus, Raffl. 

 Corydon sumatranus, Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 278 ; Hartert, p. 548. 



$ ad. Gedong, South Perak. 12th January. (No. 528) 



The Dusky Broadbill has the iris brown, the orbital skin pink, the bill 

 pink, lavender on the tomia and tip of the culmen, and the feet brownish. 



A nest of this species was found at Sungkei Tali, Ulu Bentong, Pahang, 

 on the 1 6th December, 1904. It is a very large pendant pyriform structure 

 made of dead creepers, etc., somewhat loosely interwoven, the entrance low 

 down on one side, and the lining and foundation formed of flat strips of 

 palm-leaf. It was suspended from the end of a ratan thirty feet from the 

 ground, and contained three highly incubated eggs. These are rather 

 wide, blunt ovals. In all three the ground colour is pinkish-white, but the 

 markings vary, one having the small yellowish-brown surface spots and pale 

 lavender shell-marks evenly distributed all over the shell ; in a second, the 

 spots, though equally fine, are mostly concentrated towards the larger end of 

 the shell, the smaller end being almost devoid of markings ; while in the 

 third the spots are larger, the majority being clustered round the larger end } 

 and the remainder sparingly scattered over the rest of the shell. The 

 measurements in all three are 1*2 x -95 inch. 



PICIDAE 



115. Sasia abnormis, (Temm.) 

 Sasia abnormis, Sharpe, P.Z.S., 1888, p. 279. 



Sasia abnormis everetti, Hargitt, Hartert, p. 547. 



$ ad. Bukit Besar. 2,500 feet. 5th and 1 1 th May. (No. 59) 



