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^ end. In some eggs all the markings are very fine and minute 

 ' laid on, as it were, with a very fiiie-pointed brush ; in others they 

 «' are coarse and streaky, and occasionally bold, blotchy and well 

 " denned. 



"Specimens occur which could scarcely be separated from 

 1^ varieties of the English Ring-Ouzel's egg. The eggs have usually 



a slight gloss, and some specimens are highly glossy. As already 

 " mentioned, in some examples secondary markings, small purple 

 " clouds and spots, appear to underlie the red-brown blotches " 



In size the eggs range from 1-02 to 1-30 in length, and from -78 

 to -93 m breadth. 



Nilghiri Hills (Tristram Coll.). 



Nilghiri Hills, 1st April. 



Nilf.liiri Hills, April. 



Nilghiri Hills, April. 



Nilghiri Hills, May. 



Nilghiri Hills, 9th May. 



Ootacanumd, Nilghiri Hills. 



Curzon, Nilghiri Hills, 4th April. 



Curzon, 8th April. 



Curzon, 30th April. 



Coonoor, Nilghiri Hills. 



Coonoor. 



Coonoor, .3rd April. 



Coonoor, 9th April. 



Coonoor, 10th April. 



Coonoor, 20th May. 



Kotagherry, Nilghiri Hills, 1st May 



(Aliss Cockbum). 

 Kotagherry, 5th May {3Iiss Cock- 

 burn). 

 Kotagherry, 9th May {Miss Cock- 

 burn). 

 Kotagherry, 14th May (Miss Cock- 

 burn) . 

 Kotagherry, 16th May (Miss Cock- 

 burn). 

 Kotagherry, 17th May (Miss Cock- 

 burn) . 

 Kotagherry, 30th May {Miss Cock- 

 burn). 

 Kota^'-lierry, 10th .June (Miss 

 Cockbum). 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 



Merula bourdilloni, Seehohm. 



Morula bourdilloui, Secbohn, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 251 (1881) 

 Fauna Brit. Incl., Birds, ii. p. 125 (1890) ; id. ed. Hume, . 



Gates, 



_,_.,' .. ! — ; r- \-w„v,; , ^vc. tio. j_i.<,,,„r. Nests &• 



Bffffslnd. Birds, ii. p. 91 (1890); Skarpe in Seebohm's Mon 

 lurdidce, n. p. 75 (1900); id. Hand-l. iv. p. 119 (1903). 



The egg of Bourdillon's Ouzel in the CoUection, which is one of 

 those taken by Major Terry and mentioned in Hume's ' Nests and 



