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destroyed it. I subsequently took two other nests in May, both
placed on the ground in holes in the side of a bank by the road-
side. In form the nest is a ball, with a round lateral entrance,
and is composed externally of dried grasses and green moss, lined
with bits of wool, cotton, feathers, thread, and hair. The eggs
are three in number."

Two eggs of this species, sent to nie by Captain Hutton, are
verv perfect ovals, pure white *, and rather glossy.

They both measure 0-62 by 0*48.

Prom Sikhim. Mr. G-ainmie writes:—"The only nest I ever
found of this Warbler was in a natural hole in a small tree in an
open part of a large forest, at 5500 feet above the sea. In a cleft,
five feet from ground, where a limb had been lopped off, there was
a small hole, barely large enough at entrance to admit the bird,
but gradually widening out for the seven or eight inches of its
depth. In the bottom of this cavity was a loose lining of dry
bamboo-leaves, on which lay five eggs. They do not agree with
those taken by Captain Hutton, which were : pure white,' but I
am absolutely certain of the authenticity of the eggs taken by me.
They were well-set, so five is probably the full complement. They
were taken on the 26th May."

The eggs sent by Mr. Gammie, for the authenticity of which he
vouches, are moderately broad ovals, somewhat compressed and
pyriform towards the small end. They have but little gloss, and
are of the same type as A. swperciliaris and A. albiyularis. The
ground is a dull pinkish white, and they are profusely mottled
and streaked with red, which in some eggs is brownish, in some
purplish. The markings are densest at the large end, where they
have a tendency to form an irregular zone, which in some speci-
mens is very conspicuous.

These eggs vary from 0*56 to 0*57 in length, and from 0*41 to
0-42 in breadth.

442. Aforornis albigularis, Hodgs. The White-throated Flycatclier-

Warbler.
Abrornis albigularis, Hodgs.} Jerd. B. Ind. ii, p. 204.

A nest of this species found in Native Sikhim, below Namtchu,
on the 28th July, is a regular Tailor-bird's nest, absolutely uriclis-
tinguishable from the one also sent me by Mr. Mandelli as belonging
to Ortfiotomus atrigularis, so that for the moment I have some
doubts as to the authenticity of this nest. Two leaves, precisely
of the same species as those made use of by the Tailor-bird in
question, have been sewn together with the same bright yellow
silk, and the little deep cup-shaped nest within is composed exactly
of the same excessively fine grass. Another nest, also said to

* There can be little doubt that Oapt. Hutton's eggs were wrongly identi-
fied.—ED.

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