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and lavender. They measure respectively : 'SS by '64 ; '85 by -65 ; 

 •8 by -61 ; -82 by -62 ; -82 by -63 ; -83 by -62. 



2. Iloudo, Japan, 27tli May. Crowley Bequest. 



4. Fuji, Japan, 23rd May. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



Pericrocotus cantonensis, Sivinh. 



Pericrocotus cantonensis, S/tnrpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 84 (1879) ; 

 Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 224 ; Oates, Fauna Brit, hid., Birds, i. p. 490 

 (1889) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 302 (1901). 



The eggs of Swinhoe's Miniveb are of an ordinary oval form 

 and slightly glossy. They are greenish white or pale greyish green,^ 

 marked wilh specks, spots and rather large blotches of brown of 

 various shades and underlying lavender or purplish grey. In all 

 the specimens in the Collection, the markings are more or less 

 confluent round the broad end of the egg and form a well-defined 

 zone. Examples measure from -72 to -84 in length, and from -56 

 to -62 in breadth. 



3. Foochow, China, 30th May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Foochow, 9th June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 

 3. Foochow, 14th June. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 



Pericrocotus erytliropygius {Jerd.), 



(Plate IX. fig. 18.) 



Pericrocotus erythropygius, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 85 (1879) ; 

 Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 488 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, 

 Nests Si- Eygs Ind. Birds, i. p. 344 (1889) ;. Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 23 (1899) ; Sharpe, Kand-l. iii. p. 302 (1901). 



The eggs of the "White-bellied Minivet vary in shape from broad 

 to narrow oval and possess very little gloss. They are greyish 

 white, profusely marked all over with longitudinal streaks, often 

 confluent, of dark umber-brown. Underlying these are some 

 lavender markings. Specimens measure from 't)? to -71 in length, 

 and from '5 to '56 in breadth. 



2. India, 4th June. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Arvee, Khandesh, 2Sth Aug. Hume Coll. 



(J. Davidson). 

 1. Arvee, 5th Sept. (/. D.). Hume Coll. 



3. Arvee {J. D.). Hume Coh. 



Genus LALAGE, Boie. 



Lalage sykesi, Stricl-l. 

 (Plate IX. fig. 17.) 



Lalage sykesi, Ler/ge, Birds Ceylon, p. 369 (1879) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. iv. p. 8',) 1879) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 23 (1899). 



Campopbaga sykesi, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 493 (1889); 

 id. ed. Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 346 (1889). 



