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green colour, blotched all over with two shades of brown and with 

 purplish grey or lavender. Three examples measure respectively : 

 •86 by -62 ; -83 by -59 ; -78 by -6, 



2. Tamala Country, Madagascar Crowley Bequest. 



( W. Deans Coican). 



1. Betsileo, Madagascar. Crowley Bequest. 



Calamocichla leptorhyncha {Fisch. fy Reichenow). 



(Plate X. fig. 1.) 



Tiirdinus leptorliynchus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 546 (1883) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. (53 (1899). 

 Calamocichla leptorhyncha, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 206 (1903). 



The eggs of the East-African Grass-Warbler are of a regular oval 

 form and without gloss. The colour is very pale grey, with numerous 

 spots and dots of olive-brown and lavender-grey. In one specimen 

 the markings mostly appear as very pale lavender-grey blotches, 

 with a few spots of light brown. They measure from *71 to "72 in 

 length, and from -51 to -54 in breadth. 



2. East Africa. Crowley Bequest. 

 2. Zanzibar. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus ORIGMA, Gould. 

 Origma rubricata {Lath.). 



Origma rubricata, Ramsay, Ibis, 1863, p. 445 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 

 Austr. i. p. 385 (1865) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 135 (1883) ; 

 North, Nests 8f Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 142, pi. xiii. rig. 8 (1887); 

 Campbell, Nests ty Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 226 (1901) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. iv. p. 207 (19U3). 



The egg of the Hock- Warbler in the Collection is of an oval 

 shape, slightly glossy and pure white. It measures '86 by "6. 



1. New South Wales (E. P. Ramsay). Gould Coll. 



Genus ARUNDINAX, Blyth. 



Arundinax aedon {Pall.). 



(Plate X. fig. 7.) 



Arundinax aedon, Tacz. J.f. O. 1872, p. 353 ; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, i. p. 390 (1889) ; Tacz. Faune Orn. Siber. Orient, p. 227 

 (1891) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 207 (1901). 



Arundiuax olivacea, Tacz. J.f. O. 1873, taf. i. fig. 1. 



Lusciniola aedon, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 121 (1881) ; Nehrk. 

 Kat. Eiersamml. p. 33 (1899). 



The eggs of the Thick-billed Warbler in the Collection are of a 

 regular oval form and very glossy. They are purplish grey, mottled 

 with a darker shade of the same and marked with numerous thin, 



