“There were two fresh eggs; the ground-colour is a pale salmon-fawn, and the shell is covered with darker spots and marks of the same.  They are only very slightly glossy.  The two eggs measure 0.85 by 0.62.”

Major C.T.  Bingham writes from Tenasserim:—­“On the 10th March, 1880, being encamped at the head-waters of the Queebawchoung, a feeder of the Meplay, and having an hour to spare, I took my gun and climbed up a steep hill to the very sources of the Queebaw.  Here, hanging over the trickling stream, was a nest of Chaptia aenea firmly woven and tied on to a fork in the branch of a little tree, at a height of about 10 feet from the ground.  The nest was of roots and grass lined by soft fine black roots, and held three eggs, of a rich salmon-pink, obscurely spotted darker at the large end; they measure 0.83 by 0.61, 0.82 by 0.61, and 0.80 by 0.61 respectively.

“On the 15th March, 1880, in the fork of a branch of a small zimbun-tree (Dillenia pentagyna), hanging over a pathway along the bank of the Meplay stream, I found a nest of the above species.  A neat strongly-made little cup of vegetable fibres and cobwebs, containing two fresh eggs; ground-colour dull salmon, obscurely spotted with brownish pink.  They measure 0.86 by 0.64 and 0.88 by 0.65.”

Mr. J.L.  Darling, Jun., records the following notes:—­

“26th March.  Found a nest of Chaptia aenea, building, when on the march from Tavoy to Nwalabo, some seven miles east of Tavoy, in the fork of a bamboo-branch 12 feet from ground.

“29th March.  Took two fresh eggs of Chaptia aenea, and shot the bird off nest, about twenty-three miles east of Tavoy, in open bamboo-land, very low elevation.  The nest was built in the fork of an overhanging branch of a bamboo some 50 feet from the ground.

“13th April.  Found a nest of Chaptia aenea with two large young ones.  Nest built in a tree some 40 feet from ground, in open forest about twenty miles east of Tavoy.

“22nd April.  Found a nest of Chaptia aenea with two large young ones.  Nest built at the end of a bough about 30 feet from ground, near Tavoy.”

The nests of this species are quite of the Oriole type, more or less deep cups suspended between the forks of small branches or twigs of some bamboo-clump or tree.  Exteriorly they are composed of dry flags of grass, bits of bamboo-spathes, or coarse grass, bound together with vegetable fibres and often with a good deal of cobweb worked over them; sometimes a tiny bit or two of moss may be found added, and often the fine thread-like flower-stems of grass.  Interiorly they are generally lined with excessively fine grass.  In one or two nests very fine black fern-roots are intermingled with the grass lining.  The nests vary a good deal in size, but are all extremely compact, and while some are decidedly massive, nearly an inch thick at bottom, others are scarcely a quarter of this in thickness beneath.  In one the cavity is 2.5 inches broad by 3 long, and fully 2 deep; in another it is about 2.5 inches in diameter by scarcely 1.25 inches in depth.  In one nest four fresh eggs were found; in another three fully incubated ones.  The nests were suspended at heights of from 10 to 30 feet from the ground.