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green colour, blotched all over with two shades of brown and with 

 purplish grey or lavender. Three examples measure respectively : 

 •86 by -62 ; -83 by -59 ; -78 by -6. 



2. Tamala Country, Madagascar Crowley Beciuest. 



( IF. Deans Cowan). 



1 . Betsileo, Madagascar. Crowley Bequest. 



Calamocichla leptorhyncha (Fisch. Sf Reiclienow). 



(Plate X. fig. I.) 



Turdinus leptorhyuchus, Sharpe, Cut. Birds B. M. vii. p. 54:6 (1883) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eievsamml. p. 6.3 (1899). 

 Calamocichla leptorhyncha, tSharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 206 (1903). 



The eggs of the East-African Grass-Warbler are of a regular oval 

 form and without gloss. The colour is very pale grey, with numerous 

 spots and dots of olive-brown and lavender-grey. In one specimen 

 the markings mostly appear as very pale lavender-grey blotches, 

 with a few spots of light brown. They measure from '71 to '7- in 

 length, and from -51 to -54 in breadth. 



2. East Africa. Crowley Bequest. 

 2. Zanzibar. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus ORIGMA, Gould. 

 Origma rubricata {Lath.). 



Origma rubricata, Ramsay, Ibis, 1803, p. 445 ; Gould, Handh. Birds 

 Austr. i. p. 385 (1865) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 135 (1883) ; 

 North, Nests Sf Eyys Austr. Birds, p. 142, pi. xiii. lig. 8 (1887); 

 Camjjbell, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 226 (19Ul) ; Sharpie, 

 Hand-l. iv. p. 207 (1903). 



The egg of the Rock-AVarbler in the Collection is of an oval 

 shape, slightly glossy and pure white. It measures 'SQ by "6. 



1. New South Wales [E. P. Ramsay). Gould Coll. 



Genus ARUNDINAX, Blyth. 



Arundinax aedon (Pall.). 



(Plate X. fig. 7.) 



Arundinax aedon, Tacz. J.f. 0. 1872, p. 353; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, i. p. 390 (1889) ; Tacz. Faune Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 227 

 (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 207 (1901). 



Arundiuax olivacea, Tacz. J.f. O. 1873, taf. i. fig. 1. 



Lusciniola aedon, *S'ee6oA/n, C'«<. Birds B. M. v. p. 121 (1881); Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899). 



The eggs of the Thick-billed Warbler in the Collection are of a 

 regular oval form and very glossy. They are purplish grey, mottled 

 with a darker shade of the same and marked with numerous thin, 



