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size,and shape with this latter; fine twigs, dry grass, and feathers
are the materials most commonly used, the feathers being chiefly
gathered together to form a bed for the eggs ; but moss, moss and
fern roots, flocks of wool, lichen, and down may often be found in
greater or less quantities intermingled with tbe grass and straw
which forms the main body, or with the feathers that constitute^
the lining, of the nest. I have never found more than five eggs,
but Miss Cockburn says that they sometimes lay six.

Prom Murree, Colonel C. H. T. Marshall writes :— " This Myna,
which takes the place of A. tristis in the higher hills, breeds always
in holes in trees. We found five or six nests in June and early in

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They breed near Solan, below Kussowlee, and close to Jerripam,
Captain Hutton's place below Mussoorie, in both which localities I
have taken their nests myself.

Captain Hutton remarks :— " This is a summer visitant in the
hills, and is common at Mussoorie during that season ; but it does
not appear to visit Simla, although it is to be found in some of the
valleys below it to the south. It breeds at Mussoorie in May and
June", selecting holes in the forest trees, generally large oaks, which
it lines with dry grass and feathers. The eggs are from three to
five, of a pale greenish blue, shape ordinary, but somewhat inclined
to taper to the smaller end. This species usually arrives from the
valleys of the Dhoon about the middle of March; and, until they
begin to sit on their eggs, they congregate every morning and
evening into small flocks, and roost together in trees near houses ;
in the morning they separate for the day into pairs, and proceed
with the building of nests or laying of eggs. After the young are
hatched and well able to fly, all betake themselves to the Dhoon in
July."

In Kumaon I found them breeding near the K/anighur Iron-
works, and, writing from Nynee Tal, Colonel Gr. F. L. Marshall
says that they " breed very commonly at Bheem Tal (4000 feet),
but I have not noticed them at Nynee Tal. I took a great many
eggs ; they were all laid in holes in rotten trees at a height of 2 to
8 feet from the ground ; they average much smaller than tbe eggs
of A. tristis, but are similar in colour."

Writing from Nepal, Dr. Scully says : — " This species is common
and a permanent resident in the Valley of Nepal, but does not occur
in such great numbers as A. tristis. It is also found in tolerable
abundance in the Nawakot district arid the Hetoura DUD in winter.
It breeds in the Valley in May and June, laying in holes in trees
or wails; the eggs are very like those of A. tristis, but smaller —
not so broad. I noticed on two or three occasions an albino of
this species, which was greatly persecuted by the Crows. ??

Mr. G. Vidal remarks of this bird in the South Konkan :—
" Exceedingly common. Breeds in May. The irides of all I have
seen were pale slate-blue."

" In the Mgiris," writes Mr. Wait, " the Jungle Myna's eggs
may be found aUny time from the end of February to the beginning