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fine and delicate dead white, with a faint gloss, and it is thinly 

 speckled and minutely spotted with very deep purple, which, in 

 some spots, appears almost black. The markings are most 

 numerous about the larger end, and almost wanting at the smaller 

 end. 



The eggs vary in length from 0-92 to O97, and in breadtli are 

 all 0-66. 



Eurylaemus javanicus, Horsf. HorsfielcVs Broadbill. 

 Eurylsenms javanicus, Horsf., Hume, Cat. no. 139ter. 



Mr. W. Davison writes f rom Tenasserim : " This present species 

 breeds in March. On the 21st of that month I took a nest on the 

 banks of the Baukasoon chouug. It was suspended to the extreme 

 tip of a very tall bamboo overhanging the stream. It was a mas- 

 sive structure, composed of moss, fibres, roots, dry leaves, bits of 

 wool, and small twigs. It measured, in total length, 23 inches by 

 9 at the broadest part. The lower edge of the entrance-hole, 

 which measured 2'75 inches in diameter, was 5 inches from the 

 bottom of the nest, and placed at one side. The egg-cavity was 

 about 3 inches deep by about 3 wide, and thickly lined with dry 

 bamboo-leaves. The nest contained two fresh eggs." 



The eggs are moderately elongated ovals, somewhat compressed 

 towards the small end, but not pointed there, on the contrary 

 rather obtuse. The shell is very fine and fragile, but it has no 

 perceptible gloss. The ground-colour is a dull white, and is thickly 

 speckled with minute spots and specks of rusty brown. These 

 specklings are most numerous towards the large end, where in one 

 egg they form an irregular, mottled, almost confluent zone ; in the 

 other they only form a large irregular patch at one side of the 

 broad end of the egg. I do not know any other Indian egg for 

 which this could be mistaken. 



The eggs measure 1*09 by 076, and 1-03 by 0-74. 



Cymborhynchus macrorhynchus (Grin.). The Blad'-atul- 

 Eed Broadbill. 



Cymborhynchus macrorhynchus (Gm.), Hume, Rouyh Draft N. fy E. 

 no. 139 quint. 



The Eev. Mr. Barb, who obtained this species, the Common 

 Rouge-et-noir Broadbill, in Tenasserim, states, as quoted by Mr. 

 Blyth, that " this species is common in watery situations, and 

 suspends its nearly globular nest, which is constructed of small 

 twigs, from the branches of trees growing directly out of the 

 water ; the eggs are four in number, and pale spotless blue." 



Mr. W. Davison writes : " I have never been fortunate enough 

 to obtain the eggs of this species in Tenasserim, though I have 

 found several nests, but all with young. The nest resembles that 

 of E. javanicus, and like it is attached to the extreme end of a 

 branch or bamboo overhanging water. 1 have found the nests 

 from April to June ; three young in each." 



