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moderately glossy. The ground-colour is somewhat ^'ariable, being 

 generally of some shade of green, tinged with olive or brown, but 

 sometimes pale buff or stone-colour. The surface-markings, which 

 consist of specks, spots, streaks, and blotches, also varj' in extent 

 and in shade of colour. Frequently they are densely distributed 

 over the whole shell, but oftener, perhaps, they are most numerous 

 at the broad end, where they form a cap or zone. They vary in 

 colour from olive-brown to reddish brown. The underlying 

 markings are dull purple or lavender-grey, and are of the same 

 character as the surface-markings. 



Specimens measure from 1-OS to 1-29 in length, and from '89 to 

 •96 in breadth. 



2. India. 



Sind. 



Sikhim Terai, l-'ith April. 



Sikhim Terai, 2sth April. 



Sikhim Terai, 19th May. 



Delhi, 17th June (C. T. Biriffham). 



Bareillv. 



Bareilly, 23rd May {A. O. H.). 



Bareillv, 6th June {A. O. H). 



Bareillv, 2.3rd June (A. O. H.). 



Mirzapur, 8th June ( W. E. Brooks : 



Tristrfim Cull.). 

 Allahabad. 



Allahabad, 10th July. 

 Lucknow, oOth Juue. 

 Luckuow, 9th July. 

 Lucknow, 17th July. 

 Calcutta, 16th April. 

 Jhan.si, N.W. Pro vs. 

 Hoshungabad, C. Provs., 22nd Jidy. 

 Belgaum, 13th March (E. A. 



Butler). 

 Belgaum, 14th March (E. A. B.). 

 Belgaum, 20th March (E. A. B.). 

 Belgaum, Mav {E. A. B.). 

 Belgaum, 1st June {E. A. /?.). 

 Belgaum, 6th June (E. A. B.). 

 Belgaum, 7th June (E. A. B.). 

 Ceylon {E. L. Layard). 

 Foochow, China, May. 



W. RadclitFe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Cull. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume CoU. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 



Eudynamis cyanocephala {Lath.). 



Eudvnamis flindersii, Gould, Handh. Birds Austr. i. p. 632 (1865) ; 



'Bennett, P. Z. S. 1873, p. ol9. 

 Eudvnamis cvanocephala. North, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W. (2) ii. p. 654 

 "(1887) ; (2) .X. p. 215 (1895) ; id. Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 249 

 (1889) ; Shelley, Cat. Birds B. M. xix. p. 324 (1891) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. ii. p. 165 (1900) ; Campbell, Nests 8f Eggs Austr. Birds, ii. 

 p. 586, pi. 17 (1901). 



An egg of the Australian Koel is of an elongated oval shape and 



