. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . well down inside the hollow and on the bark outsidethe tree as well and, even when the natural entrance to the holeis in no way too big, it is nearly always made neat and tidy witha clay finish. The nest is generally nothing but chips of driedbark and soft tinder-wood with a few leaves and rarely a littledried moss. The eggs number anything from two to six, mostoften five and are rather fiagile, brond oval in sliape and of theusual white ground with red specks. They average about17-0 X 13-2 mm. Many birds must breed twice in the year,
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . well down inside the hollow and on the bark outsidethe tree as well and, even when the natural entrance to the holeis in no way too big, it is nearly always made neat and tidy witha clay finish. The nest is generally nothing but chips of driedbark and soft tinder-wood with a few leaves and rarely a littledried moss. The eggs number anything from two to six, mostoften five and are rather fiagile, brond oval in sliape and of theusual white ground with red specks. They average about17-0 X 13-2 mm. Many birds must breed twice in the year, asnests may be taken in May and June and even as late asSeptember. Habits. The Chestnut-bellied Nuthatch is entirely a plains birdand is very common in all well-wooded parts, though it is not aforest bird. Mango-topes both in the vicinity of, as well as awayfrom, villages are very favourite resorts and two or more pairsmay often be found in the same orchaid. They have the usualrestless habits of the genus and feed on the same kind of food. BIRDS. SITTA C. CINNAMOVENTRIS. The Cinnamon-bellied Nuthatch. ^^3 life size. SITTA. 125 (111) Sitta castaneiventris cinnamoventris. TlIK ClN>AMOJf-iiKLL]KI) NuTHATCH. Sitta Blytb, J. A. S. 11, xi, p. 439 (1 S4i) (Daijeeling).Sitt(( viiinaiiiomeoventris. Blanf. & Gates, i, p. 301. Vernacular names. SiH (Hiiid.); Sklhyi-pliij} (Lepcha); Dao-inojo-(ja/ao (Cachari). Description.—Adult male. Like tlie last but the white parts ofthe face are delicately barred with brown ; the upper pluuiage ismore an ashy-blue, tlie under parts are a deep cinnamon-chestnutand the niider tail-corerts are \\hite with ashy bases and narrowchestuut tips. Female. Differs from tlie uiale in beiug a pale dull cliestinitbelow.
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