HARTLAUBIUS.—APLONIS. 419 
Two specimens are marked with pale chocolate-red and lilac, but 
two others have, in addition, some spots and blotches of very dark 
chocolate-brown, Four examples measure respectively: 1:16 by 
‘753 £16 bya79)- tots by fas. IL by =79. 
1. Meplay Choung, Tenasserim, 9th Hume Coll. 
March (C. 7. Bingham). 
2. Meplay Choung, 9th March (C. Hume Coll. 
heb.) 
1. Sinzaway, Tenasserim, 18th April Hume Coil. 
Ge), 
Genus HARTLAUBIUS, Bonap. 
Hartlaubius auratus (P. LZ. S, Miiller). 
(Plate XVIII. fig. 20.) 
Hartlaubia madagascariensis, EL. Newton, Ibis, 1863, p. 349; Cowan, 
Proc. R. Phys. Soe. Edinb, vii. p. 149 (1882). 
Hartlaubius madagascariensis, Mclne-Edwards & Grandidier, Hist. Nat. 
Madag., Otis. i. p. 311, pl. 302. fig. 17 (1879); Sharpe, Cat. Birds 
B. M. xiii. p. 120 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersammi. p. 122 (1899). 
Hartlaubius auratus, Shelley, Birds Afr. v. p. 36 (1906) ; Sherpe, Hand-l, 
v. p. 525 (1909); Nehrk. Kat. Eversamml. p. 525 (1910). 
One egg of the Madagascar Tree-Starling is of an elongate oval 
shape and slightly glossy. It is pale greenish-blue, profusely 
speckled and spotted, especially at the broad end where the 
markings are larger and more or less confluent, with dull reddish- 
brown and lavender. It measures 1:08 by -7. Two others are of 
a somewhat blunt oval shape and devoid of gloss, but are similarly 
marked. They measure °92 by -7; and °92 by ‘68. 
2, Madagascar (Gerrard: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
‘oll.). 
1. Betsileo, Madagascar. Rey. W. Deans Cowan [P.} 
Genus APLONIS, Gould. 
Aplonis cantoroides, Gray. 
Calornis cantor, Layard, Ibis, 1880, p. 295. 
Aplonis cantoroides, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B, M. xiii. p. 128 (1890): 
id., Hand-l. vy. p. 527 (1909); Nehrk. Kat, Eversamml. p. 350 
(1910). 
Three eggs of Cantor’s Tree-Starling are of a rather wide oval 
shape and glossy. The ground is pale blue or very pale greenish- 
blue sparingly marked with spots and dots of dark brown, umber, 
and two shades of lilac-grey, the markings being most numerous 
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