258 AETAMIDJE. 



coloured, spotted and blotched with rusty brown or pale chestnut 

 and underlying lavender-grey. The markings are generally clustered 

 round the broad end of the egg and form a strongly-marked but 

 irregular zone or wreath. Specimens measure from -SS to '95 in 

 length, and from -64 to -69 in breadth. 



4. Labuan, Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



3. Labuan, June {J. Whitehead). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Port Essington, Australia. Gould Coll. 

 3. New South Wales, 29th Sept. Gould Coll. 



[F. Strange). 

 3. Merungu,N.S.W., 10th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



{A. J. North). 

 8, Lachlan Kiver, N.S.W., 7th Sept. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. N.). 



2. Lachlan River {E. P. Ramsay). Crowley Bequest. 



Artamus mentalis, Jard. 



(Plate XI. fig. 13.) 



Artamus mentalis, Finsch Sf Hartl. Faun. Centralpolyn. p. 84, tab. i. fig. 5 

 (1867); Layard, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 434; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 xiii. p. 9 (1890) ; Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 119, taf. iii. tig. 32 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, E.and-1. iv. p. 261 (1903) . 



An egg of the Black -throated Swallow-Shrike in the Collection is 

 of a regular oval form and almost devoid of gloss. The ground-colour 

 is creamy white, spotted and blotched with rusty brown and 

 lavender-gre}', the markings being mostly confined to a zone round 

 the larger end. It measures "75 in length, and -59 in breadth. 



1. Fiji Islands (Tn'sirrtHi Co//.). Crowley Bequest. 



Artamus fuscus, Vieill. 



(Plate XI. fig. 10.) 



Artamus fuscus, Ze^ye, 5iVrfs Ce^oM, p. 666 (1879); Oates, Fauna Brit. 

 Ind., Birds, i. p. 498 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests 8f Eggs Ind. Birds, 

 i. p. 350 (1889) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 11 (1890) ; 

 Nehrh. Eat. Eiersamml. p. 120 (1899) ; Shar^K, Kand-l iv. p. 261 

 (1903). 



The eggs of the Ashy Swallow-Shrike are not generally separable 

 from those of A. Icucogaster, but they appear to be more varied. In 

 some specimens, for instance, the markings are almost entirely of a 

 lavender colour, and in others they are similarly of a rusty brown 

 or pale chestnut colour. They measure from "81 to "98 in length, 

 and from -Q to -71 in breadth. 



1. India. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Sikhim, 5th June (J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



2. Sikhim (/. G.). Hume Coll. 



