24 . COEYIDJS.

eggs yellowish, white, blotched with pale olive chiefly at the larger
end; young just born.

ee Jalia Powali, 6th June.—Female and nest in forest on a largish
tree placed on the fork of a branch ; a mere bunch of sticks like a
Crow's nest; three eggs, short and thick, fawny white blotched
with fawn-brown chiefly at the thick end."

Dr. Jerdon says :—u I have had the nest and eggs brought me at
Darjeeling frequently. The nest is made of sticks and roots, and
the eggs, three or four in number, are of a pale dull greenish-fawn
colour, with a few pale reddish-brown spots and blotches, some-
times very indistinct.'7

Captain Huttoii tells us that this species " occurs abundantly at
Mussoorie, at about 5000 feet elevation, during summer, and more
sparingly at greater elevations. In the winter it leaves the moun-
tains for the Dhoon.

" It breeds in May, on the 27th of which month I took a nest with
three eggs and another with three young ones. The nest is like
that of Urocissa occipiialis, being composed externally of twigs and
lined with finer materials, according to the situation; one nest,
taken in a deep glen by the side of a stream, was lined with the
long fibrous leaves of the Mare's tail (Equisetum') which grew abun-
dantly by the water's edge; another, taken much higher on the
hillside and away from the water, was lined with tendrils and fine
roots. The nest is placed rather low, generally about S or 10 feet
from the ground, sometimes at the extremity of a horizontal branch,
sometimes in the forks of young bushy oaks. The eggs somewhat
resemble those of U. occipitalis, but are paler and less spotted, being
of a dull greenish ash with brown blotches and spots, somewhat
thickly clustered at the larger end."

Mr. J. E. Cripps says :—" On the 15th June, 1880, I found a
nest [in the Dibrugarh District] with three fresh eggs. It was
fixed in the middle branches of a sapling, about ten feet off the
ground, in dense forest, and was built of twigs, presenting a fragile
appearance ; the egg-cavity was 4^ inches [in diameter] and 1 inch
deep, and lined with fine twigs and grass-roots."

Captain 'Warcllaw Eamsay writes :—" I obtain eel two eggs of this
species at an elevation of 4200 feet in the Karen hills east of
Toungngoo on the 16th April, 1875."

Taking the eggs as a body they are rather regular, somewhat
elongated ovals, but broader and again more pointed varieties
occur. The ground-colour varies a great deal: in a few it is nearly
pure white, generally it has a dull greenish or ^yellowish-brown
tinge, in some it is creamy, in some it has a decided pinky tinge.
The markings are large irregular blotches and streaks, almost
always most- dense at the large end, where they are often more or
less confluent, forming an irregular mottled cap, and not un-
frequently very thinly set over the rest of the surface of the egg.-
In one egg, however, the zone is about the thick end, and there
are scarcely any markings elsewhere. As a rule the markings are
of an olive-brown of one shade or another; but when the ground