132	CBATEBOPODrDJE.
where the markings are nearly confluent, with bright red, and
measuring O72 by 0-54 inch.
202. Oligura castaneicoronata (Burt.).    The Chestnut-headed
Short-iuing.
Tesia castoneo-coronata (Burt.}, Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 487; Hume,
Rough Draft N. $ K no. 327.
According to Mr. Hodgson's notes and figures, the Chestnut-
headed Short-wing builds a large globular nest, more or less egg-
shaped, some 6 inches high and 4 in breadth, composed oE moss-
roots and fibres, and lined with feathers, and with a circular aper-
ture in the middle of one side about 1/5 inch in diameter. The
nest is placed in some clump of shoots or thick bush (the twigs of
which are more or less incorporated in the sides of the nest) at a
height of 1 or 2 feet from the ground. The birds lay in April and
May three or four eggs, which are figured as moderately broad ovals,
somewhat pointed at one end, reddish (apparently something like
a Prinia's, though this seems incredible), and measuring O66 by
0-48 inch.
Dr. Jerdon says :—" A nest made chiefly of moss, with four small
white eggs, was "brought me as the nest of this bird. It was of
the ordinary shape, rather loosely put together, and the walls of
great thickness. It was taken from the ground on a steep bank
near the stump of a tree."
The three eggs in my museum supposed to belong to this species
pertained to this nest, and are excessively tiny, somewhat oval eggs
of a pure, dull, glossless unspotted white, very unlike our English
Wren's egg and certainly not one half the size. Dr. Jerdon was
not quite certain to which species of Tesia these eggs belonged, and
I therefore only record this " quantum valeat" They measure 0'55
and 0-6 inch in length by 0*4, 0*42, and 0-45 inch in breadth. I
am inclined to believe that both nest and eggs belonged to Pnoe-
pyyapusilla, Hodgs.
Subfamily SIBIINJE.
203. SiMa picaoides, Hodgs.    The Long-tailed Sibia.
Sibia picaoides, Hodgs•., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 55 • Hume. Hough Draft
N. fy £. no. 430.
Mr. G-ammie obtained a nest of the Long-tailed Sibia from the
top of a tall tree, situated at an elevation of about 4000 feet, in
the neighbourhood of Eungbee, near Darjeeling. This was on the
17th June, and the nest contained five fresh eggs. The nest is as
perplexing as are the eggs ; for the nest is that of a Bulbul, the
eggs those of a Shrike or Minivet. The nest is a deep compact
cup, about 4| inches in diameter and 2| inches in depth. The
egg-cavity is 3 inches across and fully 1| inch in depth. Interiorly
the nest is composed of excessively fine grass-stems very firmly