Other nests might be made entirely of tow, so far as their appearance goes; and in fact with a very large series before me, no two seem, to be constructed of the same materials. I have nests before me now, taken in September, March, June, and August, all of which when found contained eggs. Two is certainly the normal number of the eggs; about one fifth of the nests I have seen contained three, and once only I found four. From Murree Colonel C.H.T. Marshall informs us that he took the eggs in June at an elevation of about 6000 feet. Colonel G.F.L. Marshall says:--"I have taken eggs of this species at Cawnpore in the middle of June. I found six nests, five of which were in neem-trees. I also found the nest in Naini Tal at 7000 feet above the sea, with young in the middle of June; one only of all the nests I have seen was lined, and that was lined with feathers: they were, as a rule, about eight feet from the ground, but one was nearly forty feet up." Capt. Hutton gives a very full account of the nidification of this species. He says:--"These beautiful little birds are exceedingly common at Mussoorie, at an elevation of about 5000 feet, during summer, but I never saw them much higher. They arrive from the plains about the middle of April, on the 17th of which month I saw a pair commence building in a thick bush of _Hibiscus_, and on the 27th of the same month the nest contained three small eggs hard-set. I subsequently took a second from a similar bush, and several from the drooping branches of oak-trees, to the twigs of which they were fastened. It is not placed on a branch, but is suspended between two thin twigs, to which it is fastened by floss silk torn from the cocoons of _Bombyx Huttoni_, Westw., and by a few slender fibres of the bark of trees or hair according to circumstances. "So slight and so fragile is the little oval cup that it is astonishing the mere weight of the parent bird does not bring it to the ground, and yet within it three young ones will often safely outride a gale that will bring the weightier nests of Jays and Thrushes to the ground.