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CAilPOPHAGID^. 



The eggs of the Black-headed Cuckoo-Shrike an extremely short, 

 broad ovals, and are fairly glossy. They are pale green or greenish 

 white, very densely blotched and streaked with brown and nuder- 

 lyiug lavender. On some specimens, little of the ground is visible ; 

 on others, about one-third of its extent can be seen. Specimeus 

 measure from -8 to -86 in length, and from -fiS to -QQ in breadth. 



1. Calcutta. Crowlev Bequest. 



2. Calcutta, 12th June. Hume Coll. 

 2. Saugor, Central Provmces, 24th July Hume Coll. 



(F. R. Bleivitt). 



2. Mysore, 14th May (/. Macpherson). Hume Coll. 



Lalage tricolor, Siuaias. 



Campephaga humeralis, Tkien. Fortpjianz. ges. Voff. tab. xxx. fig. 9, a, h 

 (1845-54); Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 204 (1865). 



Lalagre tricolor, SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 92 (1879) ; North, Nests 

 Sr Fffffs Austr. Birds, p. 78 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 23 

 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests ^- Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 103, pi. 7 (1901) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 303 (1901). 



The eggs of the "White-shouldered Cuckoo-Shrike are of a regular 

 oval form and slightly glossy. They are of a pale green colour, 

 densely streaked, blotched and clouded with umber-browa or chest- 

 nut-brown and lavender. They measure from -78 to -87 in length, 

 and from -G to -(35 in breadth. 



1. Australia. Salviu-Godman Coll. 



3. Dawson River, Queensland, 29th Crowley Bequest. 



Oct. {North Coll.). 



1. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



2. Dobroyde, N. S. W., Oct. {E. P. Crowley Bequest. 



Ramsay). 



2. Liverpool, N. S. W., 30th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



North Coll.). 



2. Murray R., N.S.W., Dec. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Gippslaud, Victoria. F. A. Philbrick, E3q.,K.C. [P.]. 



2. Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P.]. 

 2. West Australia. Gould Coll. 



Lalage terat (Bodd.). 



Lalage terat, Shnrpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 336 ; id. Cat. Birds B. M. iv. 



p. 95 (1879) ; Nekrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 23 (1899). 

 Campophaga terat, Oates Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 495 (1889) ; id. ed. 



Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 348 (1889). 



The eggs of the Pied Cuckoo-Shrike cannot be separated from 

 those of L. sylcesi. They measure from -So to -87 in length, and 

 from -61 to -64 in breadth. 



2. Klang, Malay Peninsula, Aug. Hume Coll. 

 {tV. Davison). 



