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The eggs vary in length from 1-25 to 1-45 inch, and in breadth 

 from 1'02 to 1*1 inch ; but the average of a dozen is 1*39 by 

 1-07 inch.* 



* I acid the following, which appeared in the ' Eough Draft,' under the 

 name of Taccocua tiffin is, Blyth. Mr. Hume writes: " I have never seen the 

 nest of the Central-Indian Sirkeer. Mr. F. E. Blewitt, who found several in 

 Saugor, describes it as precisely similar to that of T. sirkct\ 



" The eggs, which I received from him from Saugor, where this is the pre- 

 dominant race or species, appear to me to differ in no respect from those of 

 T. sirkee. The birds themselves, many of which were also sent me, are smaller 

 and darker-coloured, but, with nearly a dozen eggs of each lying before me. it 

 seems to me impossible to separate the eggs. Like the eggs of T. sirkce, the 

 eggs of this race generally become very much soiled and stained during incu- 

 bation. 



"In size the eggs I have (ten in number) vary from 1'84 to 1-55 inch, and 

 in width from 1-03 to I'l inch; but the average of the ten is T4 by 1'06 inch, 

 so that they are really a trifle larger than those of 7'. sirkcc." ED. 



