CATALOGUE. 
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A. b. c. d. Nepal ((7. nipalensis, Hodgs.). Presented by 
B. H. Hodgson, Esq., June, 1853. 
e.f. Assam. From McClelland's Collection. 
g. h. i. Kumaon. From Captain R. Strachey's Collection. 
" This is extremely common in the jungles, keeping in thickets 
during the day, and coming out to the open parts as evening sets in, 
grass plains, and Jchets, which it skims over with a low silent flight. 
When on the wing, it emits a low chirp, somewhat like a sparrow ; 
it has another and very peculiar note, when seated on the top of 
some decayed tree, and which, on a calm night, may be heard for a 
mile, sounding as if some one was striking a plank with a hammer 
deliberately." 
" Makes no nest ; eggs laid on the bare ground, in bush jungle, 
in general two ; shape blunt, and both ends nearly equal ; male egg 
1-^ X -ri" in., pale fleshy clay-colour, sprinkled with patches of darker 
brownish-red ; female egg 1^ x |-in., paler and redder." — (Tickell.) 
" Of this species," remarks Captain Hutton, " which is a summer 
visitant at Mussooree, I took two eggs at an elevation of 5,000 feet, 
on the 19th April, from the bare ground, beneath bushes on the 
side of a hill, the colour being a rich cream white, with darker 
blotches of reddish brown or clay-colour. Of one, the diameter was 
X fin., the other was somewhat smaller." 
Earn. TODID^. 
Genus Ampelis, Linn., S. N. (1785). 
BoMBTCiLLA, (BHss.) Vieill, Ois. de VAmer. Sept., 
(1807). 
BoMBTCiPHORA, Meyer, TascJienh. (1810). 
BoMBTCivoEA, Temm., Man. d'Orn. p. 76 (1815). 
680. AMPELIS GARRULU8, Linn. 
Ampelis garrulus. Linn., S. iV. I. p. 297. G. B. Gray, 
Gen. of Birds, I. p. 278 ; Catal. Brit. Birds in B, 
M. p. 86. BlytJi, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 194i. 
Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 336. 
Bombycilla bohemica, Brisson. 
Bombyciphora poliocoelia, Meyer. 
