Stray Feathers. A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies August 1877

The bottom 4 inches thick and the walls and roof very strong but thin and allowing everywhere of the fingers being inserted."146 NOTES ON THE NIDIEICATION Composed entirely of the leaves of elephant grass the living heads of the supporting stalks being bent down and incoporated with the structure to form the roof.' Entrance oval about 6 by 4 with its lower edge about 2 inches above the eg [...] The entrance is about half way down and measures 11 by 1. The bottom of the egg chamber is about one inch below the tip of the entrance and the thickness of the walls everywhere is about one-third of an inch. [...] The ether two appeared to be new.; one was placed on the side of a nutlet' on the root of a tree and the other on a tree trunk where the tree separated into three branches about two feet from the ground.150 NOTES ON THE NIDIFICATION [The Blue-Winged Ground Thrush occurs and breeds throughout British Burmah from Tonghoo to the Pag-chan Estuary and from the coast of Arracan to the Kareenee keepin [...] The whole of the larger end of the egg pretty thickly speckled and spotted with brown varying from an olive to a burnt sienna intermingled with little spots and clouds of pale inky purple and similar spots and specks chiefly of the former color but smaller in size scattered thinly over the rest of the egg. [...] In shape hemispherical the foundation being of small branches and leaves of the bamboo and the interior and sides of small branches of the coarser weeds and fine twigs.