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the broiul end. Two examples moiisure respectively : -JJ by •()!' ; 

 •9 by -05. 



2. Mt. Kina (!a,hi,r)(inieo,l;5th March Cruwley Bequest. 

 (■/. M'hitchmil). 



Genus CULICICA.PA, Swlnh. 



Culicicapa ceyloneusis {Swains.). 



(Phitc IX. fig. 6.) 



Culicicapa ceyloneusis, Shurpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 3G9 (1879) ; id. 

 If/is, 1889, p. -02 ; Leyye, Birds Ceylon, p. 410 (1879); Gates ed, 

 Hume, Nests Sj- J^i/i/s Ind. Birds, ii. p. 10 (1890) ; Skarpe, Iland-l. iii. 

 p. 268 (1901). 



Tlio eggs of the Grey-headed Flycatcher are of a broad oval form 

 and moderately glossy. They are cream-coloured, blotched and 

 clouded with pale brown and dark lavender-grey, densely over tlio 

 larger half of the egg where the markings assume the form of a 

 broad and moi'e or less well-defined zone, and sparingly elsewhere. 

 On the whole, they resemble the conmion typo of egg of the ii/u'^/i- 

 (hira group. They measure from "58 to "Go in length, and from '-iG 

 to -5 iu breadth. 



2. Sikhim, lOtli June {J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



7. Nilghiri Hills. Hume Coll. 



2. KoUigherry, Nilghiri Hills, 30th Hume Coll. 



April {Miss Vochhuru). 

 2. Oulacamuud, 1st May. Hume Coll. 



2. Muuut Kiua Balu, l?orneo, 29th Crowley Bequest. 



April [J. Whitehead : with an 



egg of Ilierucoccy.v fu(ja.v). 



Genus MYIAGRA, Vifj. cj- Horsf. 

 Myiagra nitida, Gould. 



Myiitgra nitida, Gould, Handb. Birds Ausfr. i. p. 2oo (18Go) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 375 ( 1879) : Xurth, Nests ^- E(j(js Austr. Birds, 

 p. 94 (1881)) ; Campbell, Nests S,- JEtp/s Austr. Birds, i. p. 121, pi. 9 

 (19U1); tiharpe, Iland-l. iii. p. 'M8 (1901). 



The eggs of the Satin Flycatcher are of an ordinary oval shape 

 and slightly glossy. Two specimens in the Collection are white, 

 spotted and blotched with umber-brown and purplish grey in a well- 

 defined zone round the large end. A third specimen is also white, 

 but the zone is barely indicated, the markings being pale brown and 

 lavender and distributed more or less over the whole shell. Three 

 examples measure respectively : "83 by '6; '8 by -6; -73 by •57. 



2. Tasmania (7?. D. Atkinson). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Tasmania {E. D. A.). Crowley Bequest. 



