1 64 TUEDID.^. 



entirely wanting. Specimens measure from '78 to -87 in length, 

 and from -57 to '65 in breadth. 



2. Punjab, 14th April. Hume Coll. 



2. Jhansi, Punjab. Hume Coll. 



3. Delhi, 14th April ( C. T. Bim/ham). Hume Coll. 



1. Sambhur, 10th May {E. M. Adam). Hume Coll. 

 3. Ajmere, oOth Aug. {A. O. Hume). Hume Coll. 

 8. Ajrra, 18th June. Hume Coll. 

 3. Etawah, 29th Mnrch. Hume Coll. 



2. Etawah, 6th April. Hume Coll. 



2. N.W. Provinces, India, May Crowley Bequest. 



( W. E. Brooks : Tristram Coll.). 



3. t^augor, C. Provs., 12th May. Hume Coll. 



Cercomela asthenia, Bonap. 

 (Plate YII. fig. 13.) 



Pratiucola melanura, apud Tristram, Ibis, 1867, p. 97. 



Myrmecocichla yerburii, Sharpe, Bull. B O. C. iv. p. xxxviii (1895) ; id. 



Ibis, 1895, p. 384 ; Yerbtiry, Ibis, 1896, p. 24. 

 Cercomela asthenia, Sharpe, Iland-l. iv. p. 174 (1903). 



The small series of eggs of Bonaparte's Chat-Robin in the Collection 

 are very like those of C. fusca, but they are slightly smaller, and 

 the markings appear to be larger and more decided, with the ground- 

 colour a trifle paler. Six examples measure from -71 to -78 in 

 length, and from -57 to '61 in breadth. 



4. Wilderness of Judiea, 2oth April Crowley Bequest. 



(If. B. Tristram). 

 2. Palestine, 6th June (H. B. T.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus POLIOCICHLA, Sharpe. 



Poliocichla cinerea ( Vieill.). 



Saxicola cinerea, Sharpe, ed. Bayard's Birds S. Africa, p. 242 (1875-84). 

 Myrmecocichla cinerea, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 358 (1881). 

 Emarginata cinerea, Stark ^- Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Birds, ii. p. 204 



(1901). 

 Poliocichla cinerea, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 175 (1903). 



The eggs of the Lesser Sickle-winged Chat-Robin are of a regular 

 oval shape and very glossy. They are of a blue colour, speckled 

 with rust-colour, chiefly at the broad end. They measure from 

 •8 to -9 in length, and from -6 to -64 in breadth. 



2. S. Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 

 1. S. Africa (E. L. Layard). Crowley Bequest. 



3. Nel's Poort, S. Africa {T. Atmore: Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram CoU.\. 



