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Family TURDID^. 



Genus PLATYCICHLA, Baird. 



Platycichla flavipes (Vieill.) 

 (Plate V. fig. 5.) 



Merula flavipes, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 253 (1881) ; Sliarpe in 

 SeehoJun's Mon. Turdidce, ii. p. 81 (1900j ; von Iherlng, Rev. Mus. 

 Paulida, ii. p. 199 (1900). 



Platycichla flavipes, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. Ill (1903). 



The three eggs of the Brazilian Grey Ouzel are of a narrow oval 

 shape and of a dull surface. They are pale greenish blue, rather 

 coarsely blotched and spotted with reddish brown and lilac-grey. 

 In two of the examples the blotches are larger at the broad eud 

 than elsewhere. They measure respectively : 1-2 by "8; 1-18 by -8; 

 1-22 by -8. 



3. Eio de Janeiro, Brazil. Alexander Fry^ Esq. [P.]. 



Platycichla venezuelensis, SJiarpe. 



Merula flavipes, auct. pt., ex Venezuela. 



Merula carbouaria, JSehrk. Kat. Eiersatnml. p. 38 (1899). 



Merula veuezueleusis, Hharpe in Seebohni's Mon. Turdidce, ii. p. 83 



(1900). 

 Platycichla venezuelensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. Ill (1903). 



The eggs of the Venezuelan Grey Ouzel are represented in 

 the Collection by four specimens from the Crowley Bequest. 

 They resemble those of P. jlavipes in colour, but are smaller, 

 rather more glossy, and, in general appearance, brighter. One 

 of the four ditiers from the others in being very thickly spotted and 

 streaked all over, but little ground-colour beiug visible. In size they 

 vary from -96 to 1-11 m length, and from 'I'd to -79 in breadth. 



4. Venezuela {Gugenheimer). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MYIEDESTES, Swains. 



Myiedestes ralloides (d'Orb.). 



(Plato VII. fig. IG.) 



Myiadestes ralloides, Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 492. 



Myiadectes ralloides, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 375 (1881) ; Kehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml. p. 50 (1899). 

 Myiedestes ralloides, Sluupe, Hand-l. iv. p. 113 (1903). 



The eggs of the Andean Solitaire are of a rather broad, pointed, 

 oval shape, and slightly glossy. The ground is white or pinkish- 



