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COPSTCHFS SAULAEIS. 
ripening plaintams, was a shapeless structure of grass and dried weeds. The eggs are from two to four in 
number, and are broad short ovals in shape, of a pale bluish-green or very light greenish ground-colour 
profusely speckled and blotched throughout, but most thickly at the large end, with bluish grey and two 
shades of umber-brown, with a few blackish blots and occasionally short streaks of deep sepia at the latter 
part. Some eggs are freckled uniformly all over with light brown, and others are very sparingly spotted. 
They measure from 0-91 to 0-96 inch m length, and from 0-65 to 0-75 in breadth. In Burmah, Mr. Oates 
writes. This bird almost invariably selects a large hollow bamboo, many of which are generally to be found 
lying about the verandahs and cucumber-framings of the native houses, and places its nest about 2 feet inside 
Genus GTTTOCIFCLA, 
Bill slenderer and more compressed than in Copsychus. Tail with the central feathers elon- 
gated and the laterals much graduated. Legs and feet somewhat slenderer than in Copsychus. 
