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CATALOGUE. 
a. Himalaya. From Bax's Collection. 
h. Young. Himalaya. From Dr. Lord's Collection. 
c, Nepal. Presented by B. H. Hodgson, Esq. 
d. e. ^ $ . Kumaon. From Captain R. Strachey's 
Collection. 
" This is one of tlie commonest birds in the Hills, usually ap- 
pearing, except in the breeding season, in small parties of five or six, 
most probably comprising a family. It breeds in May and June, 
placing the nest sometimes on the branch of a tall oak-tree {Quercus 
incand), at other times in a thick bush : it is composed of a founda- 
tion of twigs, and lined with fine roots of grass, <fec., mixed with the 
long black fibres of ferns and mosses which hang upon the forest- 
trees, and have much the appearance of black horse-hair. The nest is 
cup-shaped, rather shallow, loosely put together, circular, and about 
4i\ in. iu diameter. The eggs are sometimes three, sometimes four, 
in number, of a greenish stone-grey, freckled chiefly at the larger 
end with dusky, and a few black hair-like streaks, which are not 
always present ; they vary, also, in the amount of dusky freckling at 
tlie larger end : shape ordinary. The nestling bird is devoid of the 
lanceolate markings on tlie throat." — (Captain Hutton.) 
March 17th, 1S56. 
