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The eggs of the Java?! Black-capped Babbler are of a regular oval 

 shape, and have a small amount of gloss. The colour is pale pink, 

 clouded with a darker shade of pink and very light chestnut. Over- 

 lying these there are also hieroglyphic-like scrawls and spots of 

 dark reddish brown irregularly distributed, and a few similar under- 

 lying markings of purplish grey. THey measure respectively : 

 •85 by -62 ; -87 by -62 ; -90 by -65. 



1. Java, 24th April. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Java, 2oth May. Crowley Bequest. 



Drymocataphus nigricapitatus {Eijtim). 



Drj'mocataphus nigricapitatus, Sliarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii, p. 554: 

 (1883); OaUs, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 145 (1889); id. ed. 

 Hume, Nests if Eijgs Ind. Birds, i. p. 102 (1889) ; SlMrpe, Hand-l. 

 iv. p. 36 (1903). 



The eggs of the llalayan Black-capped Babbler in the Collection 

 are of an elliptical form and exhibit a considerable amount of gloss. 

 The ground, of which very little is visible, is of a creamy-white 

 colour, and this is thickly freckled and mottled with brown and 

 underlying pale purple, the two colours being of about equal extent. 

 They measure respectively: -82 by -QX ; -SI by '62. 



2. Klang, Malay Peninsula, 3rd April Hume Coll. 

 ( W. Davison). 



Drymocataphus capistratoides (StricM.). 



(Plate II. fig. -4.) 



Drymocataphus capistratoides, Sharjje, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 555 

 (1883) ; id. Hand-l. iv. p. 36 (1903). 



Two eggs of the Bornean Black-capped Warbler are of an elliptical 

 form and glossy. The ground-colour is light grey, almost entirely 

 covered with freckles and streaks of brown and pale purple, these 

 forming a more or less distinct cap at one end. They measure 

 respectively : -9 by -64 ; 'SG by '61. 



2. Borneo {Sir Kuyh Low). Dr. Bowdler Sharpe [P.]. 



Drymocataphus tickelli (Bli/th). 



Drymocataphus tickelli, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 557 (1883) ; 

 Oaf.es, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 146 (1889) ; Stuart Baker, 

 Journ. Bomhny Nat. Hist. Soc. viii. p. 189 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 

 iv. p. 37 (1903). 



Eggs of Tickell's Babbler in the Collection resemble those of 

 D. assamensis in shape and markings, but the ground-colour is 

 greenish grey, instead of pale bluish. They measure from "85 to '87 

 in length, and from -61 to -64 in breadth. 



3. Hungrura, N. Cachar, 14th June. E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. [C.]. 



