so NECTAEINIID^. 



Arachnothera everetti, Sharpe. 



Araclinorapliis everetti, Sharpe, Hn's, 1893, p. 861. 

 Aracliiiothei-a everetti, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 59 (1900). 



Two eggs of Everett's Spider-hunter are of a long, rather pointed 

 oval shape and somewhat glossy. The ground-colour is wliitish, 

 finely mottled all over with dull purplish-brown, this colour 

 becoming most dense towards the larger end, where it forms a 

 clearly defined zone or cap. The eggs measure respectively : 

 •88 by -6 and -9 by -6. 



2. Mt. Kiua Balu, N. Borneo, 16th Crowley Bequest. 

 March {J. Whitehead). 



Genus ANTHOTHREPTES, Swains. 



Anthothreptes collaris ( Vieill.). 



(Plate I. figs. 21 & 22.) 



Nectariuia eollnris, Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 208. 



Anthodiajta collaris, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 320 (1875- 



84) ; Shelley, Monoyr. Nect. p. 339 (1876-80). 

 Anthothreptes collaris, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 116 (1884) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 78 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 61 



(1906). 



The eggs of the Natal Collared Sun-bird are of an ordinary oval 

 form and exhibit little gloss. They vary much in colour ; two 

 examples are bluish-white, marked, almost entirely in the form of 

 a narrow zone round the broad end, with spots and short fine lines 

 of dark umber-brown and lavender. Two others are pale greyish- 

 buff, marked in a broad zone round the large end with confluent 

 blotches and lines of purplish-brown and lavender. Two others 

 are somewhat similarly marked, but on a pinkish-buff ground. 

 Seven examples, which are all more or less imperfect, measure 

 about "7 by •45. 



2. Natal. T. Avres, Esq. [C.l. 



2. Natal {T. Ayres). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



2. Natal, Dr. Oueinzius [C.j. 



1. [Natal] {Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Anthothreptes malaccensis (Scojy.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 25.) 



Anthreptes malaccensis, Shelley, Monoqr. Nect. p. 315 (1870-80) ; Sharpe, 



P. Z. S. 1879, p. 342. 

 Anthothreptes malaccensis, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 122 (1884) ; 



Oates, Fauna Brit, hid.. Birds, ii. p. 366 (1890); Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 79 (1899) : Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 62 (1906). 



The eggs of the Malaccan Brown-throated Sun-bird are of a 

 regular oval shape and without gloss. They vary in ground-colour 



