436 DICRURID &. 
blotches of deep chocolate-brown and purplish-grey, most of the 
markings being confined to the larger end. In the second type 
the ground is pinkish-white or pale pink, blotched and spotted 
with light red and pale lavender-grey, the markings, though most 
numerous at the larger end, being also distributed over the rest of 
the shell. They vary from 1 to 1-1 in length, and from °75 to “79 
in breadth. 
3. Margherita, Assam, 15th May. E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. [C.1!. 
2. Margherita, 22nd May. FE. C. Stuart Baker, Esq., & 
Dr: i. Coltart (P-]- 
4, Margherita, Ist June. EK. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. 
ROSIE 
3. Margherita, Ist June. E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq., & 
Dr. H. Coltart [P.]}. 
Genus CHIBIA, Hodgson. 
Chibia hottentotta (Linn.). 
Chibia hottentotta, Swinhoe, Lbis, 1861, p. 411, 1863, p. 96; Sharpe, Cat. 
Birds B. M. iii. p. 235 (1877); Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind. Birds, i. 
p- 820 (1889); Oates, ed. Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 213 
(1889); Nehrk. Kat. Eversamml. p. 19 (1899), p. 354 (1910) ; 
Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 557 (1909). 
Chibia brevirostris, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 878; Nehrk. t. c. p. 20. 
The eggs of the Hair-crested Drongo are typically of a pointed 
oval shape, but some have the smaller end blunt or rounded. The 
majority are devoid of gloss, but a few exhibit some trace of it. 
The colour is extremely variable. The ground ranges from greyish- 
white to pinkish-white and pale salmon-pink. The markings are 
of many types. In one they consist of a few faint specks, barely 
visible till the egg is closely examined; in another the egg is 
closely stippled all over with pale lilac and rufous; in another the 
markings consist of specks and spots of pale chestnut and lavender, 
which often form a eap at the broad end; in a fourth type the shell 
is closely speckled and spotted with lavender, umber-brown and 
rufous; and lastly, there is another type in which the egg is 
densely spotted, streaked and blotched with pale chestnut and 
javender, the markings generally forming an irregular cap. <A 
few specimens have, moreover, some minute round black specks at 
the broad end. The eggs measure from ]-01 to 1°35 in length, and 
from ‘78 to ‘86 in breadth. 
1. Darjiling, Sikhim, 14th May (J. Hume Coll. 
Gammie). 
2. Mongphoo, Darjiling, 5th June Hume Coll. 
(J. G.). 
2. Sikhim Terai, 26th April. Hume Coll. 
2. Sikhim Terai, 7th May. Hume Coll. 
3. Sikhim Terai, 8th May. Hume Coll. 
©. Sikhim Terai, 18th May. Tfume Coll, 
