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some of the eggs of Arachnechthra asiatica. It is greenish-white, 
densely freckled with greyish-brown. It measures ‘61 by *42, 
1. Nilghiri Hills, S. India, Oct. Hume Coll. 
(W. Davison). 
Leptocoma hasselti (7emm.). 
(Plate I. fig. 24.) 
Cinnyris hasselti, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 127 (1876-80) ; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds B. M, ix. p. 67 (1884). 
Arachnechthra hasselti, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 860 (1890) ; 
id., ed. Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 258 (1890). 
Leptocoma hasselti, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 42 (1906). 
Two eggs of Van Hasselt’s Sun-bird are of an ordinary oval 
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.). 
Cinnyris zeylonica, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 137 (1876-80); Legye, B. 
Ceylon, p. 569 (1879); Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 64 (1884) ; 
Nehrk. Kat. Eversamml. p. 77 (1899). 
Arachnechthra zeylonica, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 64 
(1890); td., ed. Hume, Nests & Eqgs Ind, Birds, ii. p. 265 (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 Arachnechthra asiatica either in colour or size. 
2. Maunbhum, Bengal, 16th December Crowley Bequest. 
(R. C. Beavan: Tristram Coll.). 
1. Raipur, C. Provinces (& &, Hume Coll. 
Blewitt). 
2. Salem, Madras, Aug. (4. G. R. Hume Coll. 
Theobald). 
1. Southern India, 9th June. Hume Coll. 
1. Lunugala, Ceylon, 6th April (4. Z. Crowley Bequest. 
Butler). 
1. Lunugala, May (A. L. B.). Crowley Bequest. 
Genus HERMOTIMIA, Reichenb. 
Hermotimia corinna, Salvad. 
Cinnyris corinne, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 117 (1876-80). 
Cinnyris aspasize, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 68 (1884) [ part. ]. 
Hermotimia corinna, Sharpe, Hand-l. vy. p. 42 (1906). 
An egg of the Duke-of-York-Island Sun-bird is of an oval form 
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