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some of tlie eggs of AracJinec7iihra asiatica. It is greenish-white, 

 densely freckled with greyish-brown. It measures 'Gl by '42. 



1. Nilo-biri Hills, S. India, Oct. Hume Coll. 



(JV. Baviso)!). 



Leptocoma hasselti (2'emm.), 

 (Plato I. fig. 2-i.) 



Cinnvris hasselti, SheUei/, Monogr. Ned. p. 127 (187G-80) ; Gadoic, Cat. 



Birds B. M. ix. p. (iT (1884). 

 Arachnechtlira hasselti, Oates,Faujia Brit, hid., Birds, ii. p. 360 (1890) ; 



id., ed. Hume, Nests ^- Bf/ffs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 258 (1890). 

 Leptocoma hasselti, Shnrpe, Hand-l. v. p. 42 (1906). 



Two eggs of Van Hasselt's Sun-bird are of an ordinary oral 

 form and rather glossy. They are brown, with a zone of a some- 

 what darker shade of the same colour round the broader end and 

 a few indistinct freckles elsewhere on the shell. Two examples 

 measure respectively : '57 by -4 ; '58 by •4. 



2. Salang, Malay Peninsula, 28th "Feb. Hume Coll. 



(J. Darling). 



Leptocoma zeylonica {Linn.). 



Cinnyi'is zevlonica, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 137 (1876-80) ; Leqqe, B. 



Ceylon, p. 669 (1879) ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 64 (lS84) ; 



Nehrk. Kut. Eiersamml p. 77 (1899). 

 Arachiierhtbra zerlonica, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 64 



(1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests &■ Eggs Ind, Birds, ii. p. 263 (1890). 

 Leptocoma zeylonica, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 42 (1906). 



The eggs of the Ceylonese, or Purple-rumped, Sun-bird do not 

 differ from those of ArachnechtJtra asiatica either in colour or size. 



2. Maunbhum, Bengal, 16th December Crowley Bequest, 

 (i?. C.Beavan: Tristram Coll.). 



1. Eaipur, C. Provinces (K B. Hume Coll. 



Bleioift). 



2. Salem, Madras, Aug. (A. G. B. Hume Coll. 



Theobald) . 

 1. Suuthern ludia, 9th June. Hume Coll. 



1. Lunugala, Ceylon, 6th April (A. L. Crowley Bequest. 



Butler). 

 1. Lunugala, May {A. L. B.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus HERMOTIMIA, Reichenh. 



Hermotimia corinna, Salvad. 



Cinnvris corinnje, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 117 (1876-80). 

 Cinnyris aspasire, Gadmr, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 68 (1884) [part.]. 

 Hermotimia corinna, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 42 (^1906). 



An egg of the Duke of-York-Lsland Suu-bird is of an oval form 



