MUSCICAPULA. 263 



Collection is inseparable from the mottled type of egg of Alsconax 

 latirostris described above. It measures -7 by "SI. 



1. Eastern Siberia (Nekrkoru Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MUSCICAPULA, Bli/th. 



Muscicapiila superciliaris (Jercl). 

 (Plate VII. fig. 19.) 



Muscicapula superciliaris, Sha7-pe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 204 (1870) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersanivil. p. 25 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hcmd-l. iii. p. 223 



(1901). 

 Cyornis superciliaris, Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 17 (1890) ; 



id. ed. Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, 2ud ed. ii. p. 4 (1890). 



The eggs of the White-browcd Blue Flycatcher are of a broad 

 oval form, and exhibit a considerable amount of gloss. At first 

 sight, the)' appear to be of one uniform colour, either fawn-coloured 

 or of a pale stone-colour, but when closely looked at, they will be 

 found to be mottled or speckled with a somewhat darker shade of 

 colour than the ground-colour itself. They measure from '59 to 

 •68 in length, and from -5 to "54 in breadth. 



2. Murri, N. W. Himalayas, 5th June Hume Coll. 



{C.H. T. Marshall). 



3. Kotgarh, Himalayas. Hume Coll. 

 2. Kotgarh, 3rd May. Hume Coll. 



2. Kashmir, May ( W. E. Brooks : Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram Coll.). 



Muscicapula samarensis, Bourns ^ Worcester. 



Muscicapula samarensis, Bourns 8f Worcester, Occ. Papers Minn. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc. i. p. 26 (1894) ; Grant Sf Whitehead, Ibis, 1898, p. 237, pi. vi. 

 fig. 6; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 224 (1901). 



The eggs of the Samar White-browed Flycatcher in the Collection 

 are of an ordinary oval shape and slightly glossy. They are of a 

 bluish-green colour, speckled all over, but especially at the broad 

 end, with pale brown and lilac. They measure respectively : -75 

 by -55 ; -74 by -52. 



2. Paranos, Samar, Philippine Islands, J. Whitehead, Esq. [0.]. 

 17th June. 



Muscicapula hyperythra (BlytJi). 



Muscicapula hyperythra, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 206 (1879) ; id. 

 Hand-l. iii. p. 224 (1901). 



Cyornis hyperythrus, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, n. p. 15 (1890) ; 

 id. ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 2 (1890) ; Stuart 

 Baker, Journ, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. is. p. 123 (1894). 



