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The eggs of the Golden-backed Three-toed Woodpecker are some- 

 what pyriform and moderately glossy. They measure from '97 to 

 1-16 in length, and from "72 to "8 in breadth. 



2. Pegu, 7th May (E. W. Oates : Crowley Bequest. 



Seebohm Coll.). 



3. Meplay River, Tenasserim, 22nd Hume Coll. 



March {C. T. Bingham). 

 3. Meplay River, 2yrd March (C. Hume Coll. 



T. B.). 

 1, Labuan, Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



Genus HEMICERCUS, Swains. 



Hemicercus canente (Less.). 



Ilemicercus canente, Hargitt, Cat. Birds B. M. xviii. p. 486 (1890) ; 

 Oates ed. Hume, Nests &;■ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 314 ; Blanf. Fauna 

 Brit. Ltd., Birds, iii. p. 69 (1895) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 168 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, Iland-l. ii. p. 230 (1900). 



The eggs of the Heart-spotted Woodpecker are moderately glossy, 

 and measure from -So to -9 in length, and from '66 to "09 in 

 breadth. 



1. Moulmein, Tenasserim, 16th Dec. Hume Coll. 



( W. Daviso7i). 



2. Meplay River, Tenasserim, 11th Hume Coll. 



March (C. T. Bingham). 

 2. Kussoom, Malay Peninsula, 2nd Hume Coll. 

 July [J. Darling). 



Genus ALOPHONERPES, EeicJienh. 

 Alophonerpes pulverulentus (Temm.). 



Hemilophus pulverulentus, Hargtft, Cat. Birds B. M. xviii. p. 494 

 (1890); Oates ed. Hume, Nests ^- Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 315 (1890) ; 

 Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 71 (1895) ; Nehrk. Kat. 

 EiersamnU. p. 168 (1899). 



Alophonerpes pulverulentus, Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 230 (1900). 



Two eggs of the Great Slaty Woodpecker in the Collection are 

 somewhat spheroidal in shape, and moderately glossy. They 

 measure respectively : 1*4 by 1*I ; 1'4 by 1*12. 



2. Thoungvin River, Tenasserim, 30th Hume Coll. 

 April (C. T. Bingham). 



