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with chocolate-brown and lilac. Other eggs are pale blue, blotched 

 equally all over with pale chestnut and lilac. Others again are 

 white, in some cases speckled, in others spotted, with chestnut and 

 lilac. They measure from "61 to -64 in length, and from -46 to -48 

 in breadth. 



4. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. fCJ. 



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



7. Potchefstroom, Transvaal Crowley Bequest. 

 {T. Ayres: Tristram Coll.). 



Cisticola strangei (Fraser). 



(Plate IX. fig. 15.) 



Cisticola strangei, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 276 (1883) ; id. 

 Hand-l. iv. p. 198 (1903). 



The eggs of Strange's Fantail- Warbler in the Collection are 

 of a pointed oval shape and rather glossy. They are pale blue, 

 densely speckled with pale reddish brown and lilac-grey, and they 

 bear a close resemblance to the eggs of C. natalensis. Two examples 

 measure respectively : -69 by '5 ; "68 by "49. 



2. Boussa, Nigeria, 14th July. Dr. Cuthbert Christy [P.]. 



Cisticola natalensis (A. Smith). 



DrymcBca curvirostris, Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p. 323. 



Cisticola natalensis, Sharpe, ed. Bayard's Birds S. Africa, p. 261 

 (1875-84) ; id. Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 278 (1883) ; Stark Sf Sclater, 

 Fauna S. Africa, Birds, ii. p. loo (1901) ; SharjJe, Hand-l. iv. p. 199 

 (1903). 



Cisticola curvirostris, SIua']je, ed. Layard^s Bii-ds S. Africa, p. 263. 



The eggs of the Natal Fantail-Warbler are of a lengthened oval 

 shape and moderately glossy. They are pale blue, covered with 

 extremely minute specks of reddish brown and lilac. On a few 

 specimens the markings are somewhat denser at the broad end than 

 elsewhere. Seven examples measure from '76 to -81 in length, 

 and from -53 to -55 in breadth. 



4. Natal. T. Avres, Esq. [C.]. 



3. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



Cisticola lugubris, li'npp. 

 (Plate IX. tig. 16.) 



Cisticola fulvifrons, Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Africa, p. 264 

 (1875-84). 



Cisticola lugubris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 280 (1883) ; Tsehrh. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 56 (1899); Stark S,- Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, 

 Birds, ii. p. 153 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 199 (1903). 



The eggs of the Buff-fronted Fantail-Warbler are of a pointed 

 oval shape and excedingly glossy. Some are uniformly brick-red 

 in colour; others are of a salmon-pink colour, mottled and blotched 



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