]00 TTJEBTDJ5. 



Eggs of Indian Birds,' 2nd ed. vol. ii. p. 91 , is of a regular oval shape 

 and possesses a considerable amount of gloss. It is of a pale greenish- 

 blue colour, mottled and speckled all over with dull rufous brown 

 and underlying lilac. It measures 1-07 by -81, and is undistinguish- 

 able from small eggs of 31. shnillima. 



1. Palani Hills, Southern India, Major Horace A. Terry [P.]. 



3rd June. 



Merula kinnisi, Blyth. 



Turdus kinnisi, Leqge, Birds Ceylon, p. 449 (1879). 



Merula kinnisi, Seehohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 252 (1881) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit, hid.. Birds, ii. p. 124 (1890) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests ^^ 

 Fj/gs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 90 (1890); Sharpe in Seehohm s Mon. 

 furdidcB, ii. p. 77 (1900) ; id. Hand-l. iv. p. 119 (1903j. 



Two eggs of the Ceylon Ouzel in the Collection are somewhat 

 unlike both in size and in the character of the markings. The 

 ground-colour of both is a pale bluish green : the smaller egg, 

 which measures 1-15 by -86, is boldly blotched, especially at the 

 larger end, with rich rufous brown, with a very few smaller spots of 

 the same colour here and there ; the larger specimen measures 1-25 

 by -89, and is more closely covered with smaller spots of a rather 

 darker tint, forming at the larger end a thickish cap. 



1. Uda Pusulawa, Ceylon, Jan. {A. L. Crowley Bequest. 

 Butler). 



1. Newara Eliya, Ceylon, Jan. {A.L. Crowley Bequest. 



Butler). 



Merula ludovicisB, Lort Phillips. 



(Plate V. fig. 7.) 



Merula ludoviciee, Lort Phillips, Bull. B. 0. C. iv. p. xxxvi (1895) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1895, p. 383 ; id. Ibis, 1896, p. 78 ; Sharpe in Seehohris Mon. 

 Turdidce, ii. p. 79 (1900) ; id. Hmid-L iv. p. 119 (1903). 



As the two eggs of the Somali-land Ouzel in the Collection were 

 taken by Mr. Lort Philips in Somaliland, and described by him in 

 the ' Ibis ' for 1896, we cannot do better than quote from his 

 account of the birds and their nest as follows : — " The eggs were 

 " two in number, of a very delicate type for a Blackbird. The 

 " ground-colour is a very pale greenish blue, plentifully sprinkled 

 " with tiny spots of rufous, clouding together at the larger end ; 

 " the underlying markings and spots are faint purplish grey. Axis 

 " 1-10 in., diam. "70 in." 



2. Somali-land (F. L. P.). E. Lort PhiDips, Esq. [P.]. 



