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last year near Colombo. One was built on the topmost branch of
a young jack-tree about 40 feet high. It was very small and
shallow, measuring 2-8 inches in breadth and only 0*8 inch in
depth, and the old bird could be seen plainly from beneath sitting
across it. The other was situated on the top of a tree about
20 feet from .the ground, and was built in the same manner. The
materials are not mentioned:3

I have only seen two eggs of this species, sent me with the nest
and parent bird by Mr. P. E. Blewitt. They are oval eggs,
moderately broad and obtuse at both ends, about the same size as
average, eggs of Laniits vittatus. They are slightly glossy, have a
pale greenish-white ground, and are thickly blotched and streaked
throughout, but most densely so towards the large end, with some-
what pale brown, much the same colour as the markings on typical
eggs of L. erytlironotus. They measure O85 inch in length by
0-65 and 0-68 inch in breadth respectively. Other eggs since
received from Calcutta and Mysore measure from 0-87 to 0*81 in
length, and from 0-68 to 0-62 in breadth,

509. Campophaga terat (Bodcl.) *. The Pied Cuckoo-Shrike.

Lalage terat (Bodd.), Hume, Cat. no, 269 ter.

The eggs are quite of the Grraucalus and Campopliaya type, but
perhaps a little more elongated in shape. Very regular, slightly
elongated ovals, with scarcely any gloss on them, the ground
greenish white, but everywhere thickly streaked and mottled and
freckled over, most thickly about the large end, with a dull pale
slightly olivaceous brown intermingled with brownish, or in some
specimens faintly purplish grey. The two eggs I possess measure
0-85 and 0*87 in length, by 0'61 and 0-62 respectively in breadth.

510. Graucalus macii, Lesson. The Large Cuckoo-Shrike.

Graucalus macei, Less., Jerd. B. Ind. i} p. 417 ; Hume. Rouqh Draft
N.$E. no. 270.

My friend Mr. F. E. Blewitt seems to be the only ornithologist
who has taken many nests of the Large Grey Cuckoo-Shrike. I
never was so fortunate as to find one. He says :—" This Shrike
begins to pair about May, and in June the work of niclification
commences. The place selected for the nest is the most lofty
branch of a tree, and is built near the fork of two outlying twigs.
If this bird has a preference it would appear to be for mango and
mow a trees, on which I found most of the nests. The nest is in
form circular, and its exterior is somewhat thickly made; the

* I cannot find any note among Mr. Hume's papers regarding the discovery
of the nest of this bird. The nest may possibly have been found at Camorta
(Nicobar Islands), where this species is not uncommon.—ED.