PANURUS. SUTHORA. 03 



The single egg of the llecl-billed Crow-Tit in the Collection is 

 of a blunt oval form and hut slightly glossy. The ground is 

 creamy-white, and is spotted, blotched and smudged, but not 

 thickly, with pale yellowish brown. Intermingled with these 

 markings are some underlying spots of deep lavender. It 

 measures I'll by 'S. 



1. Sikhim, 10.000 feet, May (L. Man- Hume Coll. 

 delli). 



Genus PANURUS, Koch. 

 Panurus biarmicns (Linn.). 



Parus biarmicus, Thien. Fortgflanz. yes. Joy. p. lot, tab. xviii. 



iig. 12, a, b (184o-54). 

 Calamophilos biarmicus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Fog. tab. 43. fig. 18 



(1855-63). 

 Calamophilus biarmicus, Hewitson, Ei/r/s of Brit. Birds, i. p. 161, pi. xl. 



rig. iii (1856) ; Dresser, Birds Eur', iii. p. 49 (1871). 

 Panurus biarmicus, Gadotv, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 77 (1883) ; Seebohm, 



Brit. Birds, i. p. 492, pi. 12 (1883) ; id., Egijs of Brit. Birds, p. 214, 



pi. 53. fig. 20 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 68 (1903). 



The eggs of the Bearded Titmouse are of a very broad oval shape, 

 and some specimens approach the spheroidal. They have a con- 

 siderable amount of gloss, and are white, very evenly and somewhat 

 sparingly marked all over with short wavy lines, spots and streaks 

 of dark brown. The eggs of this species appear to be remarkably 

 uniform in coloration. They measure from '6 to *75 in length, and 

 from -53 to '59 in breadth. 



3. Laid in confinement, 3rd July. Seebohm Coll. 

 5. Hickling Broad. Norfolk, 24th Seebohm Coll. 



April (E. Norgate). 

 5. Hickling Broad, 10th June (F. A.). Seebohm Coll. 



5. Hickling Broad, 12th June {F. A.). Seebohm Coll. 



11. Hickling Broad. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6. Horsey, Norfolk. R. W. Chase, Esq. [!'.]. 



4. Hornsea, Norfolk. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 4. Valkenswaard, Holland (J. Baker). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus SUTH0RA, Hodgs. 



Suthora webbiana, Gray. 



(Plate I. fig. 14.) 



Suthora webbiana, David Sr Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 208 (1877) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 490 (1883) ; La Touche, Ibis, 1899, p. 189 ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersanvnl. p. 61 (1899) : Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 70 

 (1903). 



The eggs of the Chinese Suthora are of a regular oval form and 

 are fairly glossy. In colour they are spotless blue, but this blue 



