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and vegetable fibres, and lined inside with fine roots. It lays
four eggs, one of which is figured as a broad oval, a good deal
pointed towards one end, with a pale stone-coloured ground
freckled and mottled all over with sepia-brown, and measuring 1-27
by 0-89.

Mr. Gates writes :—u In the Pegu Hills on the 19th April I
found the nest of the Green Magpie, and shot the female off: it.

" The nest was placed in a small tree, about 20 feet from the
ground, in a nullah and well exposed to view. The nest was
neatly built, exteriorly of leaves and coarse roots, and finished off
interiorly with finer fibres and roots ; depth about 2 inches ; inside
diameter 6 inches. Contained three eggs nearly hatched; all got
broken; I have the fragments of one. The ground-colour is
greenish white, much spotted and freckled with pale yellowish-
brown spots and dashes, more so at the larger end than elsewhere."

Sundry fragments that reached me, kindly sent to me by Mr.
Gates, had a dull white ground, very thickly freckled and mottled
all over, as far as I could judge, with dull, pale, yellowish brown
and purplish grey, the former preponderating greatly. As to size
and shape, this deponent sayeth nought.

Major Binghain writes from Tenasserim :—" On the 18th April
I found a nest of this most lovely bird placed at a height of 5 feet
from the ground in the fork of a bamboo-bush. It was a broad,
massive, and rather shallow cup of twigs, roots, and bamboo-leaves
outside, and lined with finer roots. It contained three eggs of a
pale greenish stone-colour, thickly and very minutely speckled with
brown, which tend to coalesce and form a cap at the larger end.
I shot the female as she flew off the nest."

Major Binghain subsequently found another nest in Tenasserim,
about which he says :—

" Crossing the Wananatchoung, a little tributary of the Thoun-
gyeen, by the highroad leading from Meeawuddy to the sources
of the Thoungyeen, I found in a small thorny tree on the 8th
April a nest of the above bird—a great, firmly-built but shallow
saucer of twigs, 6 feet or so above the ground, and lined with fine
black roots. It contained three fresh eggs of a dingy greyish
white, thickly speckled chiefly at the large end, where it forms a
cap, with light purplish brown. The eggs measure 1-25x0-89,
1-18x0-92, and 1-20x0-90."

Mr. James Inglis notes from Cachar :—"This Jay is rather rare;
it frequents low quiet jungle. In April last a Ivuki brought me
three young ones he had taken from a nest in a clump of tree-
jungle ; he said the nest was some 20 feet from the ground and
made of bamboo-leaves and grass." *

A nest of this .species taken below Tendong in Native Sikhim,
on the 28th April, contained four fresh eggs. It was placed on
the branches of a medium-sized tree at a height of about 12 feet
from the ground; it was a large oval saucer, 8 inches by 6, and
about 2*5 in depth, composed mainly of dry bamboo-leaves, bound
firmly together with fine stems of creepers, and was lined with