196 svi.vTrn.T;. 



with chestnut and lilac red. They measure from -0 to -7 in length, 

 and from -47 to '51 in breadth. 



2. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



2. East Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



:'. Kast Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Witu, East Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



Cisticola subruficapilla (Smith). 



Cisticola subruficapilla, Sharpe, ed. LayarcVs Birds S. Africa, p, 266 

 (1875^84); id. Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 283 (1883) j Nehrk. Kot. 

 Eiersamml. p. 1.*)] (1899); Stark fy Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Birds. 

 ii. p. 151 (1901); Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 199 (1903). 



The eggs of the Grey-backed Fantail-Warbler are of an ordinary 

 oval shape and highly glossy. They are of a pale blue colour, 

 spotted and blotched, mostly at the broad end, with pale umber- 

 brown and lilac. Some specimens are also marked with a few spots 

 and hair-lines of dark umber-brown. They measure from "01 to 

 •64 in length, and from -42 to -4") in breadth. 



8. Namaqua-land, S. Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus FKANKLINIA, Blyth. 



Franklinia gracilis (Frankl.). 



Prima gracilis, Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 172 (1863). 



I'rima hodgsoni, Leqge, Birds Ceylon, p. 523 (1879). 



Cisticola gracilis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Ii. M. vii. p. 258 (1883) : Nehrk. 



Kat. Eiersamml. p. 55 (1899). 

 FranMinin gracilis, Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 376 (1889) ; id. 



ed. Hume, Nests $ Eggs hid. Birds, i. p. 240 (1889) ; Sharpe, 



Hand-l. iv. p. 200 (1903). 



The eggs of Franklin's Wren-Warbler arc of an oval form, some 

 being pointed and others somewhat blunt. They ore very glossy. 

 They are of two types of coloration, and these arc about equally 

 represented by the specimens in the Collection. In the first, the 

 egg is of a plain greenish-blue colour, absolutely unmarked. In 

 the second, the ground is greenish blue, speckled and spotted with 

 chestnut and reddish brown, generally very thickly at the broad 

 end, where the markings form a cap or zone, and sparingly else- 

 where. The eggs measure from -53 to -62 in length, and from • I 

 to - 45 in breadth. 



2. India. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Delhi, 12th March (C.T.Bingham). Crowley Bequest. 



24. Central India. Hume Coll. 



3. Seoni, C. Provs., 16th Aug. Hume Coll. 

 1. Seoni, 17th Aug. Hume Coll. 



1. Seoni, 20th Aug. Hume Coll. 



4. Seoni, 21st Aug. Hume Coll. 



2. Seoni, 23rd Aug. Hume Cell. 

 1. Seoni, 23rd Aug. Hume ( loll. 



