CHLORorSIS, — IRENA. 303 



bands of lavender and lilac-pink extend from nearly one end 

 of the egg to the other. Two specimens measure respectively : '7 

 by -51 ; -71 by -55. 



1. Labuan, Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



1, Labuan, 27th May (/. Whitehead). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus CHLOROPSIS, Janl. S,- Selhj. 



Chloropsis jerdoni (BIyth). 

 (Plate X. fig. 3.) 



Phyllornis jerdoni, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 485 (1879.) 



Chloropsis jerdoni, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 25 (1881) ; Gates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 238 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests ix 

 Eqgs Lid. Birds, i. p. 155 (1889) ; Nchrk. Kut. Eicrsaniml. p. 42 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 307 (1901). 



The eggs of Jerdon's Green Bulbul are of a somewhat narrow oval 

 form and but very slightly glossy. They are of a creamy-white colour, 

 and are sparingly speckled and spotted, chiefly at the broad end, with 

 black and lavender in some specimens, rufous and lavender in others. 

 Two of the examples in the Collection are also marked at the broad 

 end with some hair-lines and hieroglyphic-like figures which are 

 black in one egg, purplish-red in the other. 



3. Kaipur, C. Provinces, India, June Hume Coll. 



[F. R. Blewitt). 



4. Pvaipur, July {F. R. B.). Hume Coll. 



Genus IRENA, Horsf. 



Irena puella {Lath.). 



(Plate X. figs. 1 & 4.) 



Irena puella, Legge, Birds Ccglon, p. 466 (1879) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. vi. p.' 177 (1881) ; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 240 

 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests ^- Eggs Lid. Birds, i. p. 157 (1889) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersunind. p. 45, taf. i. fig. 8 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 

 iii. p. 309 (1901). 



The eggs of the Indian Fairy Blue-bird are of a pointed oval 

 shape and extremely glossy. They appear to vary much in colour. 

 Of the specimens in the Collection, three are cream-coloured, very 

 densely mottled with umber-brown and with traces of lavender 

 beneath. Two are greyish-white, densely mottled with pale brown 

 and grey. Other two examples are greenish white, with a broad 

 confluent zone round the larger end, deep chestnut-brown in one 

 egg, slaty grey in the other. Seven specimens measure from 1"05 

 to 1"2 in length, and from "77 to "84 in breadth. 



2. Assamboo Hills, S. India, 15th Hume Coll. 

 March {F. Bourdidon). 



