30) NECTARINIID 2. 
Arachnothera everetti, Sharpe. 
Arachnoraphis everetti, Sharpe, This, 1893, p. 861. 
Arachnothera everetti, Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p. 59 (1906). 
Two eggs of Everett’s Spider-hunter are of a long, rather pointed 
oval shape and somewhat glossy. The ground-colour is whitish, 
finely mottled all over with dull purplish-brown, this colour 
becoming most dense towards the larger end, where it forms a 
clearly defined zone or cap. ‘The eggs measure respectively : 
*88 by °6 and ‘9 by °6. 
2. Mt. Kina Balu, N. Borneo, 16th Crowley Bequest. 
March (J. Whitehead). 
Genus ANTHOTHREPTES, Swains. 
Anthothreptes collaris (Vieill.). 
(Plate I. figs. 21 & 22.) 
Nectarinia collaris, Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 208. 
Anthodizta collaris, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 320 (1875- 
84); Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 539 (1876-80). 
Anthothreptes collaris, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 116 (1884); 
Nehrk. Kat. Eversamml. p. 78 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 61 
(1906). 
The eggs of the Natal Collared Sun-bird are of an ordinary oval 
form and exhibit little gloss. They vary much in colour; two 
examples are bluish-white, marked, almost entirely in the form of 
a narrow zone round the broad end, with spots and short fine lines 
of dark umber-brown and lavender. ‘Two others are pale greyish- 
buff, marked in a broad zone round the large end with confluent 
blotches and lines of purplish-brown and lavender. ‘Two others 
are somewhat similarly marked, but on a pinkish-buff ground. 
Seven examples, which are all more or less imperfect, measure 
about °7 by *405. 
2. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 
2. Natal (T. Ayres). Salvin-Godman Coll. 
2. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C. }. 
1. [Natal] (Nehrkorn Coll.). . Crowley Bequest. 
Anthothreptes malaccensis (Scop.). 
(Plate I. fig. 25.) 
Anthreptes malaccensis, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 315 (1876-80) ; Sharpe, 
P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 342. 
Anthothreptes malaccensis, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 122 (1884) ; 
Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 3866 (1890); Nehrk. Kat. 
Eversammi. p. 79 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 62 (1906). 
The eggs of the Malaccan Brown-throated Sun-bird are of a 
regular oval shape and without gloss. They vary in ground-colour 
