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PEEICEOCOTUS PEEEGEINUS. 
of what looked like spiders webs attached to this were the dry leaves of the tamarind-tree. The nests were 
fixed in between two delicate forks at the extreme end of a branch near the top of the tree. The c-gs which 
are usually three in number, are pale delicate greenish white, and they are richly marked with bright slightly 
d or blots “which, always more numerous at the large end, have a tendency there to form 
a mottled irregular cap. They average in size 0 67 inch in length by 0-53 in breadth. 
Genus LALAGE. 
Bill more slender and narrower at the base than in Pericrocotus ; the «ilmen gently curved 
from the base and not suddenly bent at the tip. Nasal bristles short and stiff; rictal bristles 
scanty. Wings longer than the tail, pointed, and with the 3rd and 4th quUls subequal and longest ; 
the 1st longer than in the last genus. Tail moderately long, rounded at the tip. Tarsus about 
equal to the middle toe and its claw, and shielded with broad scutae. Toes slender ; the middle 
toe equal to the inner with its claw. 
