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Genus NESOBATES, Sharpe. 



Nesobates madagascariensis (Gmel.). 

 (Plate II. fig. 10.) 



Oxylabes madagascariensis, Milne-Edwards fy Grandidier, Hist. Nat. 



Madag., Ois. i. p. 357 (1879) ; Cowan, Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Edin. vii. 



p. 148 (1882) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 571 (1883). 

 Nesobates madagascariensis, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 40 (1903). 



The eggs of the Madagascar White-throated Babbler are of a 

 regular oval form and devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is very 

 pale pinkish white, and this is very delicately marked all over with 

 very minute specks of reddish brown or chocolate-brown. The eggs 

 measure from "54 to *59 in length, and from *41 to *45 in breadth. 



0. Betsileo, Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [C.]. 



Genus ANUROPSIS, Sharpe. 



Anuropsis malaccensis (Hartl.). 

 (Plate II. fig. 12.) 



Brachyptervx malaccensis, Hume, Stray Feath. viii. p. 59 (1879) ; ix. 



p. Ill (1880). 

 Anuropsis malaccensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 588 (1883) ; id. 



Hand-l. iv. p. 41 (1903). 



Two eggs of Hume's Short-wing in the Collection are of a regular 

 oval form and fairly glossy. They are cream-coloured, freckled, 

 spotted and streaked all over with chestnut and lilac. The markings 

 are denser at the broad end, where they are more or less confluent 

 and form a zone or cap, which in one egg is somewhat indistinct, 

 and in the other darker and well defined. They measure respec- 

 tively : -84 by -62 ; -84 by -63. 



2. Johore, Malay Peninsula, 8th March Hume Coll. 



( W. Davison). 



Genus CRATEROSCELIS, Sharpe. 



Crateroscelis murina (Sclat.). 



(Plate II. fig. 13.) 



Crateroscelis murina, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 590 (1883) ; id. 

 Hand-l. iv. p. 41 (1903). 



Two eggs of the Mouse-coloured Babbler in the Collection are of a 

 blunt oval form and moderately glossy. One specimen is of a light 

 pinkish-buff colour, spotted and clouded, chiefly in a zone round 

 the broad end, with pale brown and dark lavender. The other 

 specimen is of a precisely similar character, but the ground-colouring 



