T.):5 



Cisticola brunneiceps (Temm. 4' l^chl.). 



Salicaria (Cisticola) bruuueiceps, Temm. ^ Schl. Fauna Jap., Aivg^ p, l.'U, 



pi. 20 (1850). 

 Cisticola brunneiceps, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 197 (1903). 



Three eggs of the Japanese Fantail- Warbler are rather wide ovals, 

 somewhat pointed towards the smaller end. The ground-colour is 

 white with the faintest bluish tinge, sparsely spotted and speckled 

 with light red and reddish brown, the markings being most nume- 

 rous round the lirger end, where there are underlying spots and 

 blotches of pale lilac, the whole forming an ill-defined zone. The 

 eggs measure "6 to "So in length, by '48 in breadth. 



3. Fuji, Japan, 10th June. W. Radcliffe Saunders. Esq. 



[P.]. 



Cisticola cherina {A. Smith). 



Cisticola madagascariensis, Milne-Edwards S^- Grandidier, Hist Nat 



Madaq., Oi^. i. p. 325, pi. 303. fig. 3 (1879) ; Cowan, Proc. R. Fhus. 



Soc. Edinh. Tii. p. 148 (1882). 

 Cisticola cherina, Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Africa, p. 278 (1875-84) ; 



id. Cat. Birds B. M. vii. "p. 264 (1883) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersnmml. 



p. 56 (1899); Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 197 (1903). 



The eggs of the Brown Fantail- Warbler are of a regular oval 

 shape and slightly glossy. They are of a pale bluish-green colour, 

 speckled, spotted, and blotched with brownish chestnut, lilac-red, 

 and lavender. In some examples the markings are evenly dis- 

 tributed over the shell ; in others they are chiefly clustered round 

 the broad end of the egg in the form of a bold zone. Specimens 

 measure from •59 to -71 in length, and from -47 to -5 in breadth. 



17. Betsileo, Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 



2. Madagascar (^. iV^ezt'ioH; Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



4. Ma.dagn!icar {Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Madagascar. Crowley Bequest. 



Cisticola textrix ( VieilL). 



Heniipteryx tectrix, Sharpe, ed. Lai/ard's Birds S. Africa, p. 279 (1875-84). 



Cisticola textrix, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 206 (1883) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 56 (1899) ; Stark ^- Sclat.er, Fauna S. Africa, 

 Birds, ii. p. 146 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 197 (1903). 



The eggs of the Pinc-pinc Fantail- Warbler in the Collection are 

 of two types. One specimen is of a pale greenish-blue colour, 

 marked, chiefly at the broad end, with some blotches and hair-lines 

 of deep umber-brown and lilac. Two other specimens are of a plain 

 bluish-white colour. They measure respectively: -GSby^O; '62 

 by -47 ; -64 by -45. 



1. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P,]. 



2. Nel's Poort, Cape Colony Crowley Bequest. 



(T.At7uore: Tristram Coll.). 

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