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and clouded all over with greyish-brown; one of the eggs has a 
dark hair-line at the larger end. 
2. Antipodes I., New Zealand. Lt. Kennett Dixon, R.N. [P.]. 
Genus OREOCORYS, Sharpe. 
Oreocorys sylvanus (/odgs.). 
(Plate VI. figs. 2 & 3.) 
Oreocorys sylvanus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M.x. p. 622 (1885); Oates, 
Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 513 (1890) ; td., ed. Hume, Nests & 
Eggs Ind, Birds, ii. p. 217 (1890) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 152 (1906). 
The eggs of the Upland Pipit are of a broad oval shape and moderately 
glossy. ‘They are purplish-white, profusely speckled and spotted with 
reddish- or purplish-brown and underlying dark purplish-grey or 
lavender, The markings, though dense everywhere, are very 
crowded together at the broad end and form a confluent cap or 
zone. Specimens measure from °82 tu *98 in length, and from °63 
to °72 in breadth. 
9. Kotgarh, Himalayas (A. O. #.). Hume Coll. 
iF Kotearh, Yad April (A. O a: Hume Coll. 
Al Kotgarh, 4th May (4. O. BE). Hume Coll. 
3 Kotearh, 6th May (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 
8. Kotgarh, 15th May (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 
il, Kotgarh, 26th May (A. O. #Z.). Hume Coll. 
ot AK otearh, 29th May (ASO5H;). Hume Coll. 
2. Kotgarh, 3rd June (A. O. HZ). Hume Coll. 
4, Kotgarh, 4th June (4. O. ZZ.). Hume Coll. 
1. Kotgarh, 15th May (A. O. ‘IL: Crowley Bequest. 
Tristram Coll. ) 
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Genus MACRONYX, Swazns. 
Macronyx capensis, Linn. 
(Plate VI. figs. 1 & 4.) 
Macronyx capensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 530 (1875-84); 
butler, Feilden § Reid, Zool. 1882, p. 335; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 
x. p. 623 (1885); Nehrk. Kat. Eversammil. p. 93 (1899) ; nie 
Faun. 8. Afr., Birds, i. p. 238 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 
(1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 155 (1906). 
The eggs of the Cape Long-clawed Pipit are of a very blunt oval 
shape and slightly glossy. The eggs of one clutch in the Collection 
are cream-colour, profusely mottled and streaked all over with 
hlac-red and pale lavender. Those of two other clutches are dull 
white, spotted and blotched with pale brown and underlying dull 
purple. ‘They measure from ‘92 to 1:0 in length, and from ‘68 to 
-72 in breadth. 
2. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.] 
3. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 
2. Ladysmith, Natal, Nov. Capt. Savile G. ‘Reid iPad. 
9. Transvaal (7. Ayres: TristramColl.). Crowley Bequest. 
2. Johannesburg, Transvaal, Dec. C. C. Roberts, Esq. [P.]. 
