GEOCIOHLA CITEINA. 
459, 
has a pretty song.” Captain Hutton likewise writes that it is a true forest bird, “ building in trees and 
taking its food upon the ground, finding it in berries and insects among the withered leaves, which they 
expertly turn over with their beaks ; and hence the reason why the bill is almost invariably clothed with mud 
or other dirt.” 
Nidification.—T\m species breeds in the Himalayas and in Pegu from April until June. Its nest has 
been found by Messrs. Hutton, Marshall, Thompson, and Oates, and appears to he built sometimes in the fork 
of the branch of a low tree and at others constructed in a similar situation at a considera e eig t iom ic 
ground. Captain Hutton says that it is composed of coarse dry grasses, somewhat neatly interwoven on t ic 
sides, but hanging down in long straggling ends from the bottom. Within this is a layei of green moss an 
another of fine dry woody stalks of small plants, and a scanty lining at the bottom of fine roots. not ler, 
found by Mr. Oates in a ravine near Pegu, was situated about four feet from the ground, made o roots an 
strips of soft bark, the ends of some of the latter hanging down a foot or more ; the interior lined wit i moss 
and fern-roots •, the interior diameter about 4 inches and the inside depth about 3 inches. The eggs areusua y 
three or four in number, sometimes five. The ground-colour is described by Sir. Hume as ^^dull greyish or 
greenish white, with a conspicuously mottled and speckled red-brown cap at the large end ; they vary from 
0‘83 to I'l inch in length, and in breadth from 0’7 to 0’83inch.” 
Genus MONTICOLA. 
Bill straight, rather wide at the base ; the culmen only curved at the till, which is suddenly 
bent down. Nostrils oval and exposed. Wings long in proportion to the tail ; the 1st quill equal 
to the primary-coverts ; the 3rd the longest, 2nd subequal to the 5th. Tail rathei short, eve 
at the tip. Tarsus with an inclination to be scutellated and rather short. 
3n2 
