DETAILED LIST OF BIRDS. 
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obtained specimens during the hot season or rains, nor have 
any of my contributors ever found the nest in the plains. 
[A. O. H.] 
Wiug of Aerocephalus brunnescens. 
544. Drymoipus longicaudatus (Tickell). 
(PI. XVII., fig. 2.) 
This species was common everywhere in the plains of 
the Panjab and the low hills, through which the several 
roads lead thence into Kashmir. It was not observed 
elsewhere. \_G. H.'] 
Neither this species, nor the nearly allied D. inornatus, 
Sykes (PI. XVII., fig. l), seem as yet to have been figured. 
The nest and eggs of both species are very similar. The 
nest of D. inornatus given in the annexed wood-cut is an 
exact copy of one photographed in situ. 
Both species (in Upper India at any rate) lay in July and 
August, but nests still containing eggs may be met with as 
late as the first half of September. In the Neilgherries, D. 
inornatus lays as early as April. This bird constructs a 
very elegant nest always closely and compactly woven of 
very fine blades of grass, in no nests exceeding one-twen- 
tieth inch in width, and in many not above half of this. 
This grass is always used when fresh and green so as to be 
easily woven in and out. Both parents work at the nest, 
clinging at first to neighbouring stems of grass or twigs, 
and later to the nest itself, while they push the ends of the 
