43 



Khandesh, 16th Aug. 



Nilghiri Hills, April'. 



Nilghiri Hills, 3rd April. 



Curzon, Nilghiri Hills, 23rd April. 



Curzon, 24th April. 



Curzon, 3rd May. 



Curzon, 4th May. 



Curzon, 7th May. 



Curzon, 9th May. 



Curzon, 10th May. 



Kodanand, Nilghiri Hills, 21st Jan. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Alcippe phayrei, Blyth. 



(Plate II. fig. 20.) 



Alcippe phayrii, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 023 (1883) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 158 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests $ 

 _ Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 108 (1889). 

 Alcippe phayrei, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 44 (1903). 



The three clutches of eggs of the Burmese Babbler are fairly 

 uniform in colouring and resemble the eggs of A. phceocephala, but 

 the ground is more richly coloured and the lighter markings more 

 suffused than in the eggs of that species. They measure from 

 •68 to *76 in length, and from -53 to -6 in breadth. 



3. Sinzaway, Tenasserim, 30th March Hume Coll. 



(C. T. Bingham). 

 3. Thounsrvin River, Tenasserim, Hume Coll. 



23rd Feb. (C. T. B.). 

 3. Nwalabo, Tavoy, 9th April Hume Coll. 



(J. Darling). 



Alcippe hueti, David. 



Alcippe hueti, La Touche, Ibis, 1899, p. 185 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 43 

 (1903). 



The four eggs of Huet's Babbler are of a broad oval form, very 

 slightly glossy. On a ground of pale pinkish white, they have 

 a few underlying markings of lavender, nearly all at the larger end, 

 overlaid with more numerous spots and blotches of purplish 

 carmine, interspersed with darker lines and edgings of the same 

 colour. These markings occur all over the egg, but somewhat 

 sparingly towards the smaller end. The eggs, which are very 

 handsome, measure *75 to -8 in length, by "55 to "6 in breadth. 



4. Kuatun, Fohkien, China, 6th May 

 (J. D. La Touche). 



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