PLOCEELL.i. rLOCETJS. 3G3 



latter colour are quite free from markings, the great majority are 

 some thinly, some thickly, speckled and finely freckled with pale 

 greyish, greenish or purplish neutral tint. The markings, except 

 an occasional black hair-line, are, in at least two-thirds of the eggs, 

 BO minute that, looked at from a distance of a couple of feet, the 

 eggs appear to be of one uniform grey, some darker, some lighter, 

 some with a sepia tinge, some with a slight brown tinge, some with 

 the faintest possible inirple shade, some greenish ; but a grey si one- 

 colour is the prevailing tint of a large body of eggs, amongst which 

 perhaps one in twenty or thirty is pure Avhite with only a few 

 brown specks scattered here and there, and a good many, perhaps 

 one in ten, are a very pale grey, which look Avhite amongst tlie 

 darker varieties, though when placed beside a white egg they are 

 distinctly grey."' They measure from -08 to '78 in length, and 

 from '52 to -58 in breadth. 



13. Pegu, .Tune (E. W. Oate.-i). Hume Coll. 



20. Pegu, July {E. W. ().). Hume Coll. 



21. Pegu, Aug. (^. [f. O. ). ilume Coll. 

 47. Pegu, .Tune (E. W. ().). Gates Coll. 

 27. Pegu, .Inly (E. W. ().). Gates Coll. 



C. Pegu, Aug. (E. W. O.). Gates Coll. 



7. Pegu, Sept. (£•. Jr. O). Gates Coil. 



1. Pegu, 24th Aug. [E. W. O.). Crowley Bequest. 

 3. Thatoue Creek, Teuasseiiiu, 4tli Crowley Bequest. 



Get. (Capt. li. C. Bc.avnn; 



Tristram Coll.). 

 3. Tliatone ('reek, 4th Oct. {li. C. Crowley Bequest. 



L'. : Tristram Coll.). 

 6. Siam, Juue(i.irtyfo-(/; Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



Genus PLOCEUS, Cavio: 

 Ploceus baya, Bhjtli. 



Ploceus ]ihilippinus, Latjard, A. M. N. R. 2iid ser. xiii. p. '2~)7 (1854) ; 



Le(/(ie, Jj'irds Cet/loii, ]). 041 (1879). 

 Ploceus baya, Gates, Fauna Brit. Iiid., Birds, ii. p. 175 (1890); id., ed. 



Hume, Xests 4'- Er/ffs Jnd. Birds, ii. p. 114 (1890); ISharpe, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xiii." p. 488 (1890); id., Hand-l. v. p. 480(1909); 



Nehrk. Eat. Eiersumml. p. 340 (1910). 



The eggs of the Baya or Common Indian "Weaver-Finch are long 

 ovals, pointed at the smaller end. They have a slight gloss and 

 are plain white. They measure from '72 to -9 in length, and from 

 •52 to -62 in breadth. 



3. Saharnnpur, N.AV. Provinces, Ilume Coll. 

 Indiit. 29tli .June. 



2. Agra, oOth July. Hume Coll. 

 2. Agra, olli .\ug. Ilume Coll. 

 2. Agra, 16t!i Aug. Ilume (!oll. 

 2. Agra, li-'ird .\ug. Hume Coll. 

 2, Agra, 4tli Sept. Hume Coll. 



