44 COKVID^E.

G-ampsorTiynchus rufulus. Bather curious that the two Bed-heads
should affect each other's society."

The eggs are broad ovals, rather cylindrical, very blunt at both
ends. The shell fine, with a slight gloss. The ground is white,
and it is rather thinly and irregularly spotted, blotched, and
smeared in patches with a dingy yellowish brown, chiefly about
the larger end, to which also are nearly confined the secondary
markings, which are pale greyish lilac or purplish grey.

61. Scaeorhynclms gularis (Horsf.). The Hoary-headed Crow-Tit.
Paradoxornis gularis, Horsf., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p, 5.

A nest sent me by Mr. Mandelli as belonging to this species was
found, he tells me, at an elevation of 8000 feet in Native Sikhim
on the 17th May. It was placed in a fork amongst the branches
of a medium-sized tree at a height of about 30 feet from the
ground. The nest is a very massive cup, composed of soft grass-
blades, none of them much exceeding *1 inch in width, wound round
and round together very closely and compactly, and then tied over
exteriorly everywhere, but not thickly, with just enough wool and
wild silk to keep the nest perfectly strong and firm. Inside, the
nest is lined with extremely fine grass-stems ; the nest is barely
4 inches in diameter exteriorly and 2'5 in height; the egg-cavity is
2-4 in diameter and 1*2 in depth.

Mr. Mandelli sends me an egg which he considers to belong to
this species, found near Darjeeling on the 7th May. It is a broad
-oval, very slightly compressed at one end; the shell dull and
glossless ; the ground a dead white, profusely streaked and smudged
pretty thickly all over with pale yellowish brown; the whole
bigger end of the egg clouded with dull inky purple and two or
three hair-lines of burnt sienna in different parts of the egg. The
egg measures 0'8 by 0-61.

Two eggs of this species, procured in Sikhim on the 17th May,
are very regular ovals, scarcely at all pointed towards the lesser
end. The ground-colour is creamy white, and the markings con-
sist of large indistinct blotches of pale yellow; round the large
end is an almost confluent zone or cap of purplish grey, darker in
one egg; they have no gloss, and both measure 0-82 by 0*61.