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shape and moderately glossy. The ground-colour varies from white 

 to pale greyish pink, and the eggs arc marked, chietly at the hroad 

 cud, with spots, cloudy blotches, and scrawls ot umber-brown and 

 deep grey. Three examples measure respectively : 'do by '09 ; 

 •93 by -67 ; 1-1 by -68. 



3. S. Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



Andropadiis flavescens, Eartl. 



(Plate X. fig. 14.) 



Audropadus flavesceus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 112 (1881); 

 Ktischel, J. f. 0. 1895, p. 315 ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 43 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand- 1, iii. p. 3l'4 (1901). 



An egg of the Eastern Toothed-billed Bulbul in the Collection is 

 of a regular oval shape and highly glossy. It is greyish white in 

 colour, densely freckled all over with pale brown and lavender. It 

 measures '89 by '61. 



1. Zanzibar. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MOLPASTES, Hume. 



Molpastes fuscus (P. L. S. Miill.). 



(Plate X. figs. 15, 16 & 17.) 



P . . 



Pycuonotus pyg;eiis, Beaoan, P. Z. S. 18tJ4, p. 376 

 Molpastes haMnorrhous, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 268 (1889) ; 



id. ed. Hume, ]:<>'ests Sf Eqqs Ind. Birds, i. p. 169 (1889). 

 Molpastes fuscus (P. L. S. Midi.), Sharpe, Hand-L iii. p. 328 (1901). 



The eggs of the Madras Eed-vented Bulbul are of an oval form, 

 sometimes considerably pointed at one end, at others blunt and 

 rounded. They have a considerable amount of gloss. 



Few eggs vary so much in coloration as do the eggs of this Bulbul. 

 Mr. Hume has described them well and I cannot do better than 

 reproduce his notes : — " The ground is universally pinkish or reddish 

 white (in old eggs which liave been kept a long time a sort of dull 

 French white) of which more or less is seen according to the extent 

 of the markings. Tbese markings take almost every conceivable 

 form, defined and undefined— specks, spots, blotches, streaks, smudges, 

 and clouds ; their combinations are as varied as their colours, which 

 embrace every shade of red, brownish, and purplish red. As a rule, 

 besides the primary markings, feeble secondary markings of pale 

 inky purple are exhibited, often only perceptible when the egg is 

 closely examined, sometimes so nJimerous as to give the ground- 

 colour of the egg a universal purple tint. In about half the eggs 

 there is a tendency to exhibit, more or less, an irregular zone or 



