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shape and moderately glossy. The ground-colour varies from white 

 to pale greyish pink, and the eggs are marked, chiefly at the broad 

 end, with spots, cloudy blotches, and scrawls of umber-brown and 

 deep grey. Three examples measure respectively : "95 by •(j'J ; 

 •93 by -67; 1-1 by -68. 



3. S. Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



Andropadus flavescens, Ilartl. 



(Plate X. fig. 14.) 



Andropadus flavescens, Sharpe, Cat Birds B, M. vi. p. 112 (1881); 

 Kaschel, J.f. O. 189.'3, p. 345 ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 43 (18'J'<5); 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 324 (1901). 



An egg of the Eastern Toothed-billed Bulbul in the Collection is 

 of a regular oval shape and highly glossy. It is greyish white in 

 colour, densely freckled all over with pale brown and lavender. It 

 measures '89 by 'Ul. 



1. Zanzibar, Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MOLPASTES, Eume. 



Molpastes fuscns (P. L. S. Milll.). 



(Plate X. figs. 15, IG & 17.) 



Pycnonotus hfeniorrhous, Layard, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xiii. p. 125 

 (1854) ; Leqqe, Birds Ceiflon, p. 482 (1879) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. vi. p.' 124 (1881) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 43 (1899). 



Pycnonotus pygieus, Beaoan, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 376. 



Molpastes hasmorrlious, Outes, Faana Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 208 (1889) ; 

 id. ed. Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 169 (1889). 



Molpastes fuscus (P. L. 8. 311111.), Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 328 (1901). 



The eggs of the Madras Red-vented Bulbul are of an oval form, 

 sometimes considerably pointed at one end, at others blunt and 

 rounded. They have a considerable amount of gloss. 



Few eggs vary so much in coloration as do the eggs of this Bulbul. 

 Mr. Hume has described them well and I cannot do better than 

 reproduce his notes : — " The ground is universally pinkish or reddish 

 white (in old eggs which have been kept a long time a sort of dull 

 French white) of which more or less is seen according to the extent 

 of the markings. These markings take almost every conceivable 

 form, defined and undefined — specks, spots, blotches, streaks, smudges, 

 and clouds ; their combinations are as varied as their colours, which 

 embrace every shade of red, brownish, and purplish red. As a rule, 

 besides the primary markings, feeble secondary markings of pale 

 inky purple are exhibited, often only perceptible when the egg is 

 closely examined, sometimes so numerous as to give the ground- 

 colour of the egg a uuivei'sal purple tint. In about half the eggs 

 there is a tendency to exhibit, more or less, an irregular zone or 



