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perfectly elliptical in shape. They are very smooth and have a 

 fair amount of gloss. The pores are obsolete. The ground is of a 

 buff colour, and this is evenly marked all over with streaky clouds, 

 smears, and lines of pale pinkish brown and dull purplish grey. Two 

 examples measure respectively : 2*45 by 1*69 ; 2*48 by 1*8. These 

 dimensions do not agree well with those given by Layard (I. c.). 



1. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



1. South Africa. Purchased. 



Genus NEOTIS, SJiarpe. 

 Neotis ludwigi (Rupp.}. 



Otis colei, Smith, S. Afr. Q. Journ. 1831, p. 63, note. 

 Otis ludwigii, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 636 (1875-84). 

 Neotis ludwigi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 299 (1894); id. 

 Hand-l i. p. 174 (1899). 



The eggs of Ludwig's Bustard in the Collection are of different 

 types. One appears to have been bleached by the sun. It is 

 of a broad, pointed oval form, rather glossy, with the pores ex- 

 tremely well-marked, and pale bluish white, sparingly smeared 

 with grey. It measures 3*2 by 2-35. The second example is of a 

 narrow oval form, fairly glossy, and with the pores normally 

 developed. It is of an olive-buff colour, streaked and smeared with 

 pale brown and faint purple. It measures 3'03 by 2. 



1. South Africa. Sir Andrew Smith [C.]. 



1. South Africa. H. F. Walter, Esq. [P'.J. 



Neotis caffra (Licht.). 



Ociscaffra, Thien. Fortpftanz. yes. Vog. tab. Ivi. fig. 2 (1845-54) ; Sharpe, 



ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 634 (1875-84). 

 Neotis caffra, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiii. p. 301 (1834) ; id. Hani-l. 



i. p. 174 (1899). 



The eggs of Stanley's Bustard are of a short elliptical form and 

 fairly glossy. They are of a pinkish buff colour, streaked and 

 blotched with pale brown and dull purple. The markings are very 

 evenly distributed over the shell. Two examples measure re- 

 spectively : 2-9 by 2-25; 2-8 by 2-2. 



1. South Africa. Old Collection. 



1. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.]. 



Genus SYPHEOTIS, Less. 

 Sypheotis indica (Gm.). 



Sypheotides aurita, Rume 8f Marsh. Game Birds Ind. i. p. 33 (1879) ; iii. 

 App. pi. i. (1880) ; Barnes, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. i. p. 57 

 (1886); vi. p. 13 (1891). 



