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latter colour are quite free from markings, the great majority are 
some thinly, some thickly, speckled and finely freckled with pale 
greyish, greenish or purplish neutral tint. The markings, except 
an occasional black hair-line, are, in at least two-thirds of the eges, 
so minute that, looked at from a distance of a couple of feet, the 
eges appear to be of one uniform grey, some darker, some lighter, 
some with a sepia tinge, some with a slight brown tinge, some with 
the faintest possible purple shade, some greenish; but a grey stone- 
colour is the prevailing tint of a large body of eggs, amongst which 
perhaps one in twenty or thirty is pure white with only a few 
brown specks scattered here and there, and a good many, perhaps 
one in ten, are a very pale grey, which look white amongst the 
darker varieties, though when placed beside a white egg they are 
distinctly grey.’ They measure from ‘68 to ‘78 in length, and 
from *52 to °58 in breadth. 
13. Pegu, June (2. W. Oates). Hume Coll. 
25. Pegu, July (Z. W. O.). Hume Coll. 
al. PResn, Aue (2. W.7O.). Hune Coll. 
47. Pegu, June (2. W. O.). Oates Coll. 
27. Veg, uly (he W.10:).. Oates Coll. 
G. Pegu, Aug. (2. W. O.). Oates Coll. 
7. Pegu, Sept. (£. W. Q). Oates Coil. - 
1. Pegu, 24th Aug. (ZZ. W. O.). Crowley Bequest. 
3. Thatone Creek, Tenasserim, 4th Crowley Bequest. 
Oct. (Capt. R. C. Beavan; 
Tristram Coll.). 
od. Thatone Creek, 4th Oct. (2.C. Crowley Bequest. 
B.: Tristram Coll.). 
6. Siam, June (L. Layard: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
Genus PLOCEUS, Cwvier. 
Ploceus baya, Blyth. 
Ploceus philippinus, Layard, A. M. N. H. 2nd ser. xili. p. 257 (1854) ; 
Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 641 (1879). 
Ploceus baya, Oates, Fuuna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 175 (1890) ; zd., ed. 
Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 114 (1890) ; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds B. M. xiii. p. 488 (1890); wd., Hand-l. v. p. 480 (1909) ; 
Nehrk, Kat. Lersamnil. p. 840 (1910). 
The eggs of the Baya or Common Indian Weaver-Finch are long 
ovals, pointed at the smaller end. They have a slight gloss and 
are plain white. They measure from *72 to ‘9 in length, and from 
°52 to ‘62 in breadth. 
3. Saharunpur, N.W. Provinces, Hume Coll. 
India, 29th June. 
2. Agra, 50th July. Hume Coll. 
2. Agra, dth Aug. Hume Coll. 
2. Agra, 16th Aug. Hume Coll. 
2. Agra, 28rd Aug, Hume Coll. 
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Agra, 4th Sept. Iiume Coll. 
