Birds of North-west Fohkien. 
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In front of the nest, and attached to it, is a pad of small 
roots and sticks, measuring 4J x 6 inches. The nest itself is 
a neat cup, made of very fine roots and lined with a little 
coir and fine grass-stems. The inner depth is about If inch, 
and the inner diameter 2J x 2f inches. There were four 
fresh eggs, resembling in colouring the one described above, 
hut with the surface-spots not coalescing on the larger end 
and much smaller generally, the underlying grey spots being 
of a lighter and bluer tint, and, on the bro^d end, being in 
the shape of light confluent blotches, which form a light cap 
on one egg and a broad, but rough and light, ring round the 
large end of the other three. In shape they are more oval 
than ovate, one especially being an almost perfect rounded 
and broad oval. They measure 0 87 x 0‘66, 0 85 x 0*67, 
0'83 x 0*68, and 0*83 X 0‘67 inch. 
4125. CoRVUS MACRORHYNCHUS Wagl. 
A few of these Crows were noticed near Kuatun while we 
were there. 
4-136. Pica CAUDATA L. 
A pair or two of Magpies were breeding in the woods near 
Kuatun during our stay. 
4127. Dendrocitta sinensis (Lath.). 
Common in the forests about Kuatun. 
^ 128 . Garrulus sinensis Gould. 
Common about Kuatun. We found a nest on the 14th 
April, 1898, placed, about 10 feet from the ground, on a 
small yew in a tea-plantation in the valley below Kuatun. 
It was then unfinished. We returned on the 21st and took 
from it three fresh eggs. The inner nest was brought to me 
a few days afterwards with the remains of one broken egg in 
it. It is made of fine roots and measures about 2J inches 
in depth, with a diameter of about 6 inches. The outer 
part was of moss, and was left behind, as it came to pieces 
on being handled. 
Another nest found on a chestnut-tree behind the village 
contained only one egg on the 12th May. 
