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Collection is inseparable from the mottled type of egg of Alseonax 

 latirostris described above. It measures '7 by '51. 



1. Eastern Siberia (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MUSCICAPULA, BlytJi. 



Muscicapula super ciliar is (Jerd.). 

 (Plate VII. fig. 19.) 



Muscicapula superciliaris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 204 (1879) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 25 (1899) j Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 223 



(1901). 

 Cyornis superciliaris, Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 17 (1890) ; 



id. ed. Hume, Wests $ Eggs Ind. Birds, 2ud ed. ii. p. 4 (1890). 



The eggs of the White-browed Blue Flycatcher are of a broad 

 oval form, and exhibit a considerable amount of gloss. At first 

 sight, they appear to be of one uniform colour, either fawn-coloured 

 or of a pale stone-colour, but when closely looked at, they will be 

 found to be mottled or speckled with a somewhat darker shade of 

 colour than the ground-colour itself. They measure from -59 to 

 68 in length, and from '5 to '54 in breadth. 



2. Mum, N.W. Himalayas, 5th June Hume Coll. 



(C.H. T. Marshall). 



3. Kotgarh, Himalayas. Hume Coll. 

 2. Kotgarh, 3rd May. Hume Coll. 



2. Kashmir, May ( W. E. Brooks : Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram Coll.). 



Muscicapula samarensis, Bourns $ Worcester. 



Muscicapula samarensis, Bourns fy Worcester, Occ. Papers Minn. Acad. 

 Nat. Sc. i. p. 26 (1894) ; Grant $ Whitehead, Ibis, 1898, p. 237, pi. vi. 

 fig. 6; Sharpe, Hand-l iii. p. 224 (1901). 



The eggs of the Samar White-browed Flycatcher in the Collection 

 are of an ordinary oval shape and slightly glossy. They are of a 

 bluish-green colour, speckled all over, but especially at the broad 

 end, with pale brown and lilac. They measure respectively : *75 

 by -55 ; -74 by -52. 



2. Paranos, Samar, Philippine Islands, J. Whitehead, Esq. [O.]. 

 17th June. 



Muscicapula hyperythra (Blyth). 



Muscicapula hyperythra, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 206 (1879) ; id. 

 Hand-l. iii. p. 224 (1901). 



Cyprnis hyperythrus, Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 15 (1890) ; 

 id. ed. Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 2 (1890) ; Stuart 

 JBaker, Journ, Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. is., p. 123 (1894). 



