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fine but glossless, the ground-colour a dead white, thickly speckled
and spotted about the large end, thinly elsewhere, with somewhat
brownish and again purplish red. The markings are all very fine
and small, but where they are closely set at the large end there a
few little pale purplish-grey specks and spots are intermingled.

The eggs measure 0*68 by 0-55.

The eggs of this species obtained by Mr. Mandelli in the neigh-
bourhood of Darjeeling in July are so similar to those obtained by
Mr. Gamniie, and of which he sent me the parent bird, that
no second description is necessary. They are a shade smaller,
but the difference is not more than is always observable in even
the same species. They measure 0*67 in length, and 0-53 to 0-55
in breadth.

372. Tribura luteiventris, Hodgs. The Brown Busli-Warller.

Tribura luteoventris, Hodgs., Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 161; Hume, Rough
Draft N. fy E. no. 522.

A bird unquestionably belonging to this species*, the Brown
Bush-Warbler, was sent me along with a single egg from .Native
Sikhim. The bird was said to have been killed off the nest (which
was not preserved), which was found, at an elevation of about
12,000 feet, in low brushwood about 3 feet from the ground.

The egg is a very regular, rather broad oval, has only a faint
gloss, and is of a very rich deep maroon-red, slightly darker at the
large end.

The egg measures 0*62 by 0*49.

374. Orthotomus sutorius (Eorst.). The Indian Tailor-bird.

Orthotonms longicauda (Gm.)} Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 165; Jffume} Rough
Draft N. fy E. no. 530.

The Indian Tailor-bird* breeds throughout India and Burma,
alike in the plains and in the hills (e. y.9 the Himalayas and Nil-
giris), up to an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet.

The breeding-season lasts from May to August, both months
included; but in the plains more nests are to be found in July,
and in the hills more, I think, in June, than during the other
months.

The nest has been often described and figured, and, as is well
known, is a deep soft cup enclosed in leaves, which the bird sews
together to form a receptacle for it.

* I do not place much confidence in the authenticity of the egg of this bird
sent to Mr. Hume. Being a Warbler with twelve tail-feathers, it is unlikely to
lay a red egg, and besides tbis the eggs of the allied species, T. thoracica, as
found by trustwortby observers like Messrs. Ganimie and Mandelli, are known
to be white speckled with red, in spite of Mr. Hodgson's figure representing
them to be deep cinnabar-red.—ED.

t The notes on this bird's breeding are so very numerous that I am^ com-
pelled to omit several of them.—ED.