483 



Eggs of the Ked-billed I5lue Magpie are of a regular oval sliape, 

 and almost devoid of gloss. The ground is pale buff or pale cream- 

 colour, marked all over the shell, but especiallj" at the larger end, 

 with small spots and dots of umber-brown or reddish-browu and 

 underlying lilac-grey; there are also a few small blotches of the 

 latter colour, mostly about the larger end. They vary iu length 

 from 1-22 to 1-35. and in breadth from -92 to -97. 



Mussoorie ( T. Hiittoti). 



Mvawadi, Tlioungyeen, Tenas- 

 "serim, 19th March (C. T. Bing- 

 ham). 



^lejilav River, Tenasserim, oth 

 Maich (C. T. B.). 



Meplav Kiver, 14th April (C. T. 

 B.). 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Ooll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Urocissa erythrorhyncha (Gmel.). 



Urocissa erythvorhvnclia, SJiarpe, Cat. Birds B. 31. iii. p. 71 (1)^77) ; 

 id., Hcoid-l. V. p. 606 (1909) ; Xehrk. Kat. Eier.^amml. p. 360 (1910). 

 Urocissa sinensis, David iS" Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 375 (1877). 



Eggs of the Chinese Ilcd-billed Blue Magpie resemble those of 

 U. ocdjjitalis described above, but vary much in the colour of 

 the ground aud markings ; the former maj' be greenish-white, 

 ])ale olive, or olive-brown, and the latter vary from very small 

 dose-set spots to rather large scattered spots of umber-brown and 

 lilac-grey. 



China (M. Sicinhoe : Ti-inirant Crowlej' Bequest. 



Coll.). 

 Pekiu [R. S.). 



Chin-kiang, Kiang-sn, 12th June. 

 Kuatun, Foh-kien, 28th April. 

 Foochow, April. 

 Foochow, May. 

 Foocliow, May. 

 Foochow, 3rd May. 

 Foochow, June. 

 Amoy {R. S.). 



Seebohm Coll. 

 J. D. La Touclie, Esq. 

 J. I). La Touche, Esq. 

 J. D. La Touche, Esq. 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P, 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P, 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P, 

 C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P 

 Seebohm Coll. 



[C.l, 

 [C. 



'•]. 



Urocissa flavirostris {BJyth). 



Urocissa flavirostris. Cock Sf Marshall, Sir. F. i. p. 357 (1873) : Hitme Sf 

 Marshall, Lahore to York. p. 242 (1873) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 iii. p. 72 (1877); Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 27(1889); 

 Gates, ed. Hitme, JS'e.'^ts Sf Eqqs Ind. Birds, i. p. 16 (1889) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 606 (1909) ; ]S;ehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 360 (1910). 



Eggs of the Yellow-billed Blue Magpie do not differ from those 

 of U. occipitalis. One egg with a pale greyish-olive ground has 

 almost the whole of the markings concentrated in a dense zono 

 round the larger end ; another has the markings mostly at the 

 smaller end. 



