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from white or pinkish-white to pinkish-grey, and they are elegantly 

 marked all over with clouds and smears of underlying lavender- 

 grey, and specks, spots, hieroglypliics, and fine hair-lines of pnrplish- 

 brown or black, similar to those found on the eggs of many of the 

 Buntings. Specimens measure from -05 to -76 in length, and from 

 •49 to -53 in breadth. 



18. Labuan I., Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



2. Labuan 1. (Sir H. Loio : Tristram Ciowley Beques't. 

 Coll.). 



1. Labuan I. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Labuan I., 27th May {J. Whitehead). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus CHALCOPARIA, Cah. 



Chalcoparia phoenicotis (Temm.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 11.) 

 Anthreptes phoenicotis, Shelley, Mon. Kect. p. 325 (1876-80). 



S/iarpe, Hand-l. v. p. 63 (1906). 



The eggs of the Euby-cheeked Sun-bird are of a blunt oval shape 

 and without gloss. They are dull white or pale cream-colour, very 

 densely mottled all over with lilac-grey, to such an extent in some 

 specimens that very little of the ground-colour is visible. In 

 some eggs there is a tendency for the markings to form a zone 

 round the broad end. Seven examples measure from -65 to •7 in 

 length, and from -44 to -49 in breadth. 



2. Pegu, 1.5th March (E. TV. Oates). Gates Coll. 



1. Pegu, 6th Julv (E. W. 0.). Hume Coll. 



2. Pegu, Aug. {E. W. 0.). Hume Coll. 



2. Pegu, 27th Aug. {E. W. O.). Crowley Bequest. 



Family MELIPHAGID^. 



Genus MELITHREPTES, VieiU. 



Melithreptes atricapillus {Lath.). 



Melithreptus lunulatus, Govl'l, Hamlb. Birds Austr. i. p. 568 (1865) ; 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 204 (1884); North, Nests ^- Eqys 

 Austr. Birds, p. 227 (1889) ; Nehrk. Nat. Eiersamml. p. 80 (1899) ; 

 _ Campbell, Nests Sf Ei/ys Austr. Birdf, i. p. 359, pi. 13 (YM\). 



Mehthreptus chloropsis, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 570 (1805). 



Melithreptes atricapillus, Shai-pe, Hand-l v. p. 64 (1906). 



The eggs of the Lunulated Honey- eater are of a blunt oval shape 



