] 62 EURYLJEMIDJS. 



white, speckled all over with numerous dots of purplish brown and 

 lavender : or pink, speckled and spotted, chiefly at the hroad end, 

 with purplish red, lavender, and lilac. They measure from -85 to 

 1 in length, and from '62 to -69 in breadth. 



2. Pegu, 12th May (E. W. Oates : Crowley Bequest. 



Seebohm Co//.*). 

 7. Tenasserim (C. T. Binpham}. Hume Coll. 



3. Auiherst, Tenasseiim, llth July Hume Coll. 



( W. Damson). 



2. Thoungyin Valley, Tenasserim, Hume Coll. 



23rd April (C. 'T. Bingliam). 



5. Thoungyin Valley, 26th April Hume Coll. 

 (C. t. .}. 



3. Tavoy, Tenasserim, 20th April. Hume Coll. 



Serilophus rubropygius (Hodgs.\ 



Serilophus rubropygius, Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. xiv. p. 461 (1888) ; Oates 

 ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 293 (1890) ; Blanf. Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 9 (1895) ; Nehrk. Kat. EiersammL p. 147 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 2 (1901). 



The eggs of Hodgson's Broadbill in the Collection resemble the 

 eggs of S. lunatus of the second type, described above. They 

 measure respectively : 95 by '64 ; -92 by '65. 



2. Darjiling, Sikhim, loth May Hume Coll. 



(J. Gammie). 



Genus EURYL^MUS, Horsf. 



Eurylsenms javanicus, Horsf. 



(Plate II. figs. 17 & 18.) 

 Eurylsemus javanicus, Scl. Cat. Birds B. M. xiv. p. 463 (1888) ; Oates 



ed. Hume, Nests 



Brit. 



(1901). 



ume, Nests 8f Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 294 (1890) ; Blanf. Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 4 (1895); Sharpe. Hand-l. iii. p. 2 



The eggs of Horsfield's JBroadbill appear to be of two types. In 

 one they are cream-coloured, densely freckled with dull chestnut 

 and lavender, the markings being more or less confluent at the 

 broad end. In the other they are white, spotted and blotched 

 all over with slaty-black and lavender-grey. Four examples 

 measure respectively : 1 by -73 ; T06 by -75 ; 1 by -72 ; -99 

 by -72. 



2. Bankasuu, Tenasserim, 21st March Hume Coll. 



( W. Damson). 

 2. N.W. Borneo (Sir Hmjh Low}. Crowley Bequest. 



