252 MUSCICAI'IDJ2. 



Bradyornis silens (Shaw). 

 (Plate VII. fig. 7.) 



Bradyornis sileiis, Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Africa, p. 404 (187o- 

 84); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B.' M. iii. p. 313 (1877); Nehrk. Kat. 

 Eiersamml. p. 22 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 209 (1901). 



Tarsiger siims, Stark ^- Sclater, Faima S.Africa, Birds, ii. p. 219 (3901). 



The eggs of the Pied Wood-Slitike iu the Collection are almost 

 elliptical in shape, the two ends being closely alike, and they 

 exhibit a faint gloss. The ground-colour is pale greyish green, and 

 while one example is very indistinctly mottled with very i)ale brown, 

 the other is densely mottled with greyish brown. They measure 

 respectively: '8 by -61 ; -81 by -59. 



2. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



Genus NEWTONIA, Schl. cj- Poll. 



Newtonia briinneicauda {A. Newton). 



(Plate VII. fig. 8.) 



Newtonia brunneicauda, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 148 (1879) ; 

 Coimm, Proc. Ii. Pki/s. Soc. Edinb. vii. p. 148 (1882) ; Milne- 

 Edwards ^ Gnmdidier, Hist. Nat. Madaf/., Ois. ii. p. 382 (1885) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 24 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 210 

 (1901). 



The eggs of the Madagascar Flycatcher are of a broad oval form 

 and very slightly glossy. They are of a dull white colour, thickly 

 speckled, spotted, or blotched with reddish brown or purplish brown 

 and underlying pale lavender. The markings are very dense at the 

 broad end, where they form a more or less distinct cap. Pive 

 specimens measure from -60 to -77 in length, and from -55 to -58 

 in breadth. 



6. Betsileo, Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 



Genus MUSCICAPA, Linn. 



Muscicapa grisola, Linn. 



Muscicapa grisola, Thicn. Fortpjlanz. yes. Vd;/. p. 300, tab. xxix. 



fig. 7,a-e (1845-54); Uewitson, Eyys of Brit. Birds, i. p. 74, pi. xxi. 



lig. i (1850) ; Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 447 (1875) ; Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds B. M. iv. p. 151 (1879) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, i. p. 323, pi. 9 



(1893) ; Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 4 (1890) ; id. ed. 



Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 1 (1890) ; Seebohm, Eggs of 



Brit. Birds, p. 191, pi. 51. figs. 17 & 20 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. 



p. 211 (190i). 

 Butalis grisola, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Tog. tab. 52. fig. 11 (1855-03) ; 



Tristram, Ibis, 1807, p. 361 ; Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 206 ; Wurdlaio- 



Ramsay, Ibis, 1880, p. 53. 



