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with a slight amount of gloss. The ground-colour is bluish- 
white, and the markings, which are mostly concentrated in 
an irregular zone round the larger end, consist of short black 
dots and scrolls and violet-grey under-markings. It measures *65 
by °48. 
1. New Pomerania. Crowley Bequest. 
Hermotimia christian (Tristram). 
(Plate I. fig. 23.) 
Cinnyris christian, Tristram, Ibis, 1889, p.555; Nehrk. Kat. Eversammil, 
p- (7 (1899). 
Hermotimia christian, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 43 (1905). 
The egg of Tristram’s Sun-bird is of a somewhat pointed oval form 
and slightly glossed; the ground-colour is pinkish-white, thickly 
mottled all over with purplish-brown, the markings concentrating 
towards the larger end so as to form a distinct zone. Two examples 
measure respectively °72 by ‘5 and 73 by °5. 
2. Kiriwina Island, D’Entrecasteaux Is., Crowley Bequest. 
19th March (A. S. Meek). 
Hermotimia aspasioides (Gray). 
Cinnyris aspasioides, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 109 (1876-80) ; Gudow, 
Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 70 (1884); Nehrk, Kat. Eiersamml. p. 77 
(1899). 
Hermotimia aspasioides, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 43 (1906). 
An egg of the Ceram Sun-bird is of a somewhat pointed oval 
shape and slightly glossed; the ground-colour is brownish-white, 
and the markings, which are mostly distributed over the larger end 
of the shell, around which they form an ill-defined zone, consist of 
purplish-grey blotches, with overlying irregular spots and scrolls 
of deep blackish-brown. It measures ‘68 by 46. 
1, Amboyna (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 
Genus CINNYRIS, Cab. 
Cinnyris cupreus (Shaw). 
Cinnyris cupreus, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 191 (1876-80) ; Gadow, Cat. 
Birds B. M. ix. p. 55 (1885); Hartert, J. f. O. 1886, p. 580; 
Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 847; Nehrk. Kat. Hiersammil. p. 76 (1899) ; 
Shelley, Birds Afr. i. p. 86 (1900); Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p. 44 (1906). 
The egg of the Copper-coloured Sun-bird is of a somewhat pointed 
form, with scarcely any gloss; the ground-colour is of a brownish- 
white tint, and the markings, which are mostly concentrated in a 
