CULIClCArA. M VIAGRA. 



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the broad end. Two examples measure respectively : -'J by '02 ; 

 •9 by -05. 



2. Mt. Ki n a Ralu, Borneo, loth March Crowley Bequest. 

 (/. Whitehead). 



Genus CULICICA.PA, Swinh. 



Culicicapa ceylonensis {Swains.). 



(Plate IX. fig. 6.) 



Culicicapa ceylonensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 3G9 (1879) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1889, p. '202; Ler/ge, Birds Ceylon, p. 410 (1879); Gates ed. 

 Hume, Nests ^' J^gys Ind. Birds, ii. p. 16 (1890) ; Sharpe, Iland-l. iii. 

 p. 268 (1901). 



The eggs of the Grey-headed Flj' catcher are of a broad oval form 

 and moderately glossy. They are cream-coloured, blotched and 

 clouded with pale brown and dark lavender-grey, densely over the 

 larger half of the egg where the markings assume the farm of a 

 broad and more or less well-defined zone, and sparingly elsewhere. 

 On the whole, they resemble the common type of egg of the lUdpi- 

 dara group. They measure from -58 to 'OS in length,, and from "46 

 to -5 in breadth. 



2. Sikhim, 10th June (/. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



7. Nilghiri Hills. Hume Coll. 



2. Kotagheny, Nilghiri Hills, 30th Hume Coll. 



April (Miss Cockhuru). 

 2. Ootacamund, 1st May. Hume Coll. 



2. Mount Kina Balu, Borneo, 29th Crowley Bequest. 



April (/. Whitehead : with au 



egg of Hierococcijx fugax). 



Genus MYIAGRA, Vicj. Sj- Horsf. 



Myiagra nitida, Gould. 



Myiiigra nitida, Govld, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 2oo (1865) ; Sharpe, 

 Cut. Birds B. M. iv. p. 375 (1879) : North, Nests i^- Eggs Austr. Birds, 

 p. 94 (18S9) ; Campbell, Nests Sf Egc/s Austr. Birds, i. p. 121, pi. 9 

 (1901) ; ShariK, Hand-l. iii. p. 268 (1901). 



The eggs of the Satin Flycatcher are of an ordinary oval shape 

 and slightly glossy. Two specimens in the Collection are white, 

 spotted and blotched with umber-brown and purplish grey in a well- 

 defined zone round the large end. A third specimen is also white, 

 but the zone is barely indicated, the markings being pale brown and 

 lavender and distributed more or less over the whole shell. Three 

 examples measure respectively : '83 by '6 ; -8 by -6 ; -73 by 'bl. 



2. Tasmania {E. D. Atkitison). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Tasmania (E. D. A.). Crowley Bequest. 



