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of the blotches varies a good deal. In some it is a pale greyish or
purplish brown ; in others decidedly reddish, or even well-marked
and somewhat yellowish brown. Some pale, purplish streaks and
clouds generally underlie the brown blotches where they are
thickest, and there form a kind of nimbus. In some eggs the
markings are confined to a narrow imperfect zone of pale purplish
specks or very tiny blotches round the large end, and some of the
eggs remind one of those of Leucocerca albifrontata. The peculiar
streaky longitudinal character of the markings, almost wholly
confined to the large end, best distinguishes the eggs of the loras
from those of any other Indian bird with which they are likely to
be confounded.

In length they vary from 0*63 to 0-76, and in breadth from 0*51
to 0*57: but the average of forty-seven eggs measured is 0-69,
nearly, by a trifle more than 0-54.

246. Myzornis pyrrhura, Hodgs. The Fire-tailed Myzornis.

Myzornis pyrrlioura, Hbdffs., Jerd, B. Ind. ii, p. 263; Hume, Rough
Draft N. $ E. no. 629.

I have received a single egg said to belong to the Fire-tailed
Myzornis from Native Sikhim, where it was found in May in a
small nest (unfortunately mislaid) which was placed on a branch
of a large tree at no great height from the ground. The place
where it was found had an elevation of about 10,000 feet. Although
the parent bird was sent with the egg, I cannot say that I have
any great confidence in its authenticity, and only record the
matter quantum valeat.

The egg is a very regular, rather elongated oval. The egg was
never properly blown and has been consequently somewhat dis-
coloured. It may have been pure white, and it may have been
fairly glossy when fresh, but it is now a dull ivory-white with
scarcely any gloss. It measured 0*68 in length by 0-5 in breadth.

252. Chloropsis jerdoni (Bl.). Jerdon's Chloropsis.

Phyllornis jerdoni, BL> Jerd. £. Ind. ii; p. 97 ; Hume, Hough Draft
K # JB. no. 403.

I have never myself found the nest of Jerdon's Chloropsis, but
my friend Mr. 1\ E. Blewitt has sent me numerous specimens of
both nests and eggs from Raipoor and its neighbourhood.

In that part of the country July and August appear to be the
months in which it lays ; but elsewhere its eggs have been taken in
April, May, and June, so that its breeding-season is much the same
as that of many of the Bulbuls. The nest is a small, rather shallow
cup, at most 3| inches in diameter and 1J in depth; is composed
externally entirely of soft tow-like vegetable fibre, which appears