ABBOMTCS. 27£

of white, satiny seed-down, densely felted together to the thickness
of half an inch. The lower part, sides, and back very thinly, and
the upper portion and the margin of the mouth of the pocket
thickly, coated with excessively fine green moss and very fine soft
vegetable fibre.

My sole reason for doubting the authenticity of the nest is that
another precisely similar one was sent me by another collector, a
European, as belonging to an JBthopyga, together with the female
which he shot off the nest.

The present nest contained a pure white egg ; the other spotted
eggs. Both collectors I have no doubt were fully assured of the
correctness of their identification, and it may be that both species
of birds construct similar nests ; but I entertain considerable
doubts on this subject, and think it right to note the fact.

The egg is a very broad oval, pure white, and very glossy, and
measures 0-6 by 0*49.

Mr. Mandelli sends me a lovely nest, which he says belongs to
this species. It was found in May in Native Sikhim, at about
12,000 feet elevation. It was suspended from the tiny branch of
a tree at a height of about 8 feet from the ground. The nest is a
perfect watch-pocket, composed entirely of white silky clown
belonging to one of the boinbaxes, thinly coated here and there
with strings of moss to keep it together, and more thickly so with
this and vegetable fibre at and about the point of suspension and
round the rim of the mouth of the pocket. The nest is altogether
about. 6 inches long and about 3 inches in diameter at its broadest;
the lower edge of the aperture into the pocket is 2 inches from the
bottom of the nest, and the aperture is about 2 inches wide. It is
altogether one of the loveliest nests I have ever seen : but I cannot
feel certain that the nest really belongs to this species; for
I have had a precisely similar nest, also found in Sikhim, on the
20th May, similarly suspended at a height of about 5 feet from the
ground, sent me as belonging to another species of Abrornls; and
though Mr. Mandelli is usually right, I think the matter requires
further confirmation.

440. Abrornis superciliaris, Tick. The Yellow-Mlied Fly catclier-

Warbler.
Ahrornis flaviventris, Jerd. B. Ind. u, p. 203.

Writing from Tenasserim, Major T. 0. Bingham says :—
^ I have shot this bird on the Zammee choung, where I got a nest
with eggs; and I have more than once seen it in the Thoungyeen
forests.

" The following is an account of the nest I found, recorded in my
note-book:—

^£Khasat village—Khasat choung, Zammee river, 9th March,
1878.—My camp to-day was pitched in the midst of a dense
bamboo-break, close to a path leading to the village.

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