UROCISSA. 483 
Eggs of the Red-billed Blue Magpie are of a regular oval shape, 
and almost devoid of gloss. The ground is pale buff or pale cream- 
colour, marked all over the shell, but especially at the larger end, 
with small spots and dots of umber-brown or reddish-brown and 
underlying lilac-grey; there are also a few small blotches of the 
latter colour, mostly about the larger end. They vary in length 
from 1°22 to 1°35, and in breadth from ‘92 to :97. 
3. Mussoorie (7. Hutton). Hume Coll. 
2. Myawadi, Thoungyeen, Tenas- Hume Ooll. 
serim, 19th March (C. 7. Bing- 
ham). 
4, Meplay River, Tenasserim, 5th Hume Coll. 
March (C. 7. B.). 
3. Meplay River, 14th April (C. 7. Hume Coll. 
Bu). 
Urocissa erythrorhyncha (Gmel.). 
Urocissa erythrorhyncha, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 71 (1877) ; 
id., Hand-l. vy. p. 606 (1909); Nehkrk. Kat. Eersamml. p. 360 (1910). 
Urocissa sinensis, David § Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 375 (1877). 
Eggs of the Chinese Red-billed Blue Magpie resemble those of 
U. occipitalis described above, but vary much in the colour of 
the ground and markings; the former may be greenish-white, 
pale oliye, or olive-brown, and the latter vary from very small 
close-set spots to rather large scattered spots of umber-brown and 
lilac-grey. 
3. China (R. Swinhoe: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 
Coll.). 
4. Pekin (R. S.). Seebohm Coll. 
2. Chin-kiang, Kiang-su, 12th June. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C.]. 
8. Kuatun, Foh-kien, 28th April. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C.]. 
2. Foochow, April. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C. |. 
4. Foochow, May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P. ]. 
3. Foochow, May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.}. 
1. Foochow, 5rd May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. | P.1. 
4. Foochow, June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 
2. Amoy (£#. S.). Seebohm Coll. 
Urocissa flavirostris (Blyth). 
Urocissa flavirostris, Cock § Marshall, Str. F. i, p. 357 (1873) ; Hume § 
Marshall, Lahore to Yark. p. 242 (1878); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 
iii. p. 72 (1877) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 1. p. 27 (1889) ; 
Oates, ed. Hume, Nests § Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 16 (1889); Sharpe, 
Hand-l. v. p. 606 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eversammil. p. 360 (1910). 
Eges of the Yellow-billed Blue Magpie do not differ from those 
of U. occipitalis. One egg with a pale greyish-olive ground has 
almost the whole of the markings concentrated in a dense zone 
round the larger end; another has the markings mostly at the 
smaller end, 
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