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PYCNONOTID^. 



Family PYCNONOTID.E. 



Genus iEGITHINA, Vieill. 



^githina tiphia (Linn.). 

 (Plate X. fig. 2.) 



lora typhia, Legcje, Birds Ceyloyj, p. 490 (1880). 



.^githina tipbia", Sharpe, Cut. Birds B. M. vi. p. 7 (1S81) ; Gates, Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 280 (1889) ; id. ed. Hu7ne, Nests ^ Ec/qs 

 Lid. Birds, i. p. 151 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 42 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe, Sand-l. iii. p. 306 (1901). 



The eggs of the Common lora are of a broad oval form, and while 

 some exhibit a small amount of gloss, others are without a trace 

 of it. They are white, occasionally tinged with pink, and are 

 streaked with lavender, pale brown, lilac-red, or pinkish-brown. 

 The streaks are generally broad and confluent round the broad end 

 of the egg, and form a well-marked zone or, in some cases, a cap. 

 A few specimens are merely spotted with grey. They measure 

 from '63 to -76 in length, and from -51 to "57 in breadth. 



iEgithina viridis {Bp.). 



lora scapularis, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 339. 



iEgithina viridis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 11 (1881) ; id. Hand-l. 

 iii. p. 306(1901). 



The eggs of the Black-winged lora in the Collection are very 

 similar to those of ^. tiphia*, but in one of the specimens the 



* Dr. Sharpe (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 339) appears to have inadvertently described 

 the egg of some other bird as that of this species. 



