the bottom the eggs were (le])osited with no sort of lining intervening. The total (hipth of 
the hole was ten inches, the neck being four and a half. The diameter of' tlie orifice wan 
less than two inches, and of the chamber about three and a quarter. The eggs, two in 
number, were pure white." 
This bird has never been figured in any previous work on ornitliology. 
The Plate was drawn from a specimen in our own collection, obtained from Darjiling, 
and represents the full plumage of the adult. 
