Turui.r whiteheads evidently begins nesting in August, for several 

 live birds from the market during that month contained eggs. Two of 

 these eggs we were able to preserve entire. As may be seen by the 

 measurements, they are rather short. The short diameter crosses the 

 long diameter near its middle, and the outline slopes gently to the 

 smaller end, producing a shape less pyriform than in the eggs of our 

 American partridges. 



DESCRIPTIONS. 



No. 1. August 26, 1902. — White with numerous obscure lilac-shell 

 markings; around the larger end a band of dark sienna 0.20 inch wide, 

 whose edges are ragged and near which are a very few brown spots. 

 The dark zone incloses a white and unspotted area 0.35 inch in diameter. 

 This egg measures 0.78 by 0.63. 



No. 2. August 16, 1902. — Very similar to the other egg, but the dark 

 band more broken on margins and entire larger end to middle covered 

 with a dark-brown wash. The edge of this color area is well defined 

 and slightly irregular, a few fine specks along its edge; smaller end of 

 egg with a faint brown wash. This egg measures 0.79 by 0.65. 



If egg No. 1 were half immersed in strong coffee it would be colored 

 nearly like egg No. 2. As these eggs were taken from the oviduct — 

 that is, before they were deposited normally — I am inclined to think 

 that they may be somewhat abnormal, or not fully colored, and No. 1 

 especially tends to confirm this idea. 



TITRNIX WORCESTER!, new species. 



Type. — No. 1350, adult female, Philippine Museum Collection. Pur- 

 chased in Quinta Market, Manila, August 30, 1902. Probably from 

 Parafiaque, Luzon. 



Description— 1 Gleneral color above, black ; on the forehead, spotted with 

 white; on crown and nape, feathers tipped with pale buff and some 

 edged with white, producing an incomplete white line on middle of head 

 (this line may be perfect in a well-made skin) ; feathers on back and 

 rump barred and tipped with pale buff, on the interscapular area edged 

 also with white; feathers on sides of face mostly white with black tips; 

 lores white; feathers on sides of neck black, each with a wide subterminal 

 bar of white; a small black spot behind ear; breast and throat rusty 

 buff, extending up each side of the white chin area as rusty buff tips 

 to the feathers and bounded above by the black-tipped white feathers 

 of malar region; flanks, under tail coverts, and sides of abdomen and 

 breast are also rusty buff, but paler; center of abdomen white; a few 

 feathers on sides of abdomen are barred with blackish brown. Primaries, 

 their coverts, and secondaries blackish gray; four outer primaries nar- 

 rowly edged with whitish ; secondaries barred with whitish on outer 

 web. Scapulars like the back but with wide edges of whitish buff. 



