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examples measured b)- Mr. Hume, which are no longer in his 

 Collection, varied from 2-o-i: to 2'(i2 in length, and from 1'8 to 1"84 

 in breadth. 



1. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- Zool. Society. 



dens, London). 



Tragopan melauoceplialus (J. E. Gray). 



Ceriornis melanocephalus, Hume 4" Marsh. Game Birds Lid. iii., App. 



pi. iii. (1880) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. B. iii. p. 410 



(1890). 

 Tragopan melanocephalus, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 273 (1893) ; 



Oates, Game Birds Ind. i. p. 24o (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 33 



(1899). 



The eggs of the Western Horned Pheasant are elongated ovals, 

 without gloss and of a dull yellowish bulf, minutely spotted all over 

 with yellowish brown. They measure from 2*4 to 2'55 in length, 

 and from 1'6S to 1"72 in breadth. 



4. Hazara, N.W. India, 2oth May Hume Coll. 



{Captain Lautour). 



Tragopan temmincki {J. E. Gray). 



Ceriornis temmincki, Sclafer, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 117, pi. viii. fig. 3. 

 Tragopan temmincki, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 275 (1890) : Oates, 

 Game Birds Ltd. i. p. 251 (1898) ; Sharps, Hand-l. i. p. 33 (1899). 



The eggs of Temminck's Horned Pheasant vary from a narrow to 

 a broad oval shape and have very little gloss. Those of the clutch 

 recorded below from China, six in number, are of a pinkish cream- 

 colour, very closely speckled all over with dark reddish brown ; 

 those laid in the Zoological Gardens are of a rufous-buff colour, 

 thickly speckled with dull rufous-brown. They measure from 2 to 

 2-25 in length, and from 1-45 to 1-Go in breadth. 



4. Laid in confinement (Zool. Gar- Zool. Society, 



dens, London). 



0. Ta-tsieu-lu, W. China {A. E. Pratt). Seebolim Coll. 



Tragopan blythi (Jerd.). 

 (Plate V. fig. 5.) 



Ceriornis blvthi, Hume Sf Marsh. Game Birds Ind. i. p. 151 (1879) ; 



Sclater,' P. Z. S. 1884, p. 477. 

 Tragopan blythi, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 276 (1893) ; Oates, 



Game Birds Ind. i. p. 254 (1898); Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 33 (1899). 



The sole egg of the Grey-bellied, or Blyth's, Horned Pheasant 

 in the Collection closely resembles those eggs of T, temmincki which 

 were laid in the Gardens of the Zoological Society and are described 

 above, but is rather paler. It was laid in confinement, and measures 

 2-4 by 1-75. 



1. Sadiya, Assam, July {Major W. P. L. Sclatei, Esq. [P.]. 



Brijdon). 



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