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Genus BATIS, Boie. 



Batis capensis (Linn.). 



(Plate VIII. fig. 13.) 



Batis capensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Africa, p. 346 (1875-84) ; 



id. Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 133 (1879) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 402 ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 24 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l iii. p. 244 



(1901). 

 Pachyprora capensis, Stark $ Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Birds, ii. p. 254 



(1901). 



An egg of the Cape Flycatcher in the Collection is of a very broad 

 oval form and very glossy. It is of a very pale pinkish- white colour, 

 rather heavily spotted and blotched round the middle portion of the 

 egg with chestnut and grey. The two ends of the shell are merely 

 lightly speckled. This example measures -69 by -55. 



1. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [0.] 



Genus HYPOTHYMIS, Boie. 

 Hypothymis azurea (Bodd.). 



Ilypothymis azurea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 274 (1879) ; Barnes, 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. p. 96, pi., fig. 290 (1889) j Gates 

 ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs 2nd. Birds, ii. p. 27 (1890) : id. Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 49 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 27 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l iii. p. 248 (1901). 



The eggs of the Indian Black-naped Flycatcher are usually of a 

 regular oval form, but some are somewhat sharply pointed at the 

 smaller end. They exhibit a considerable amount of gloss, and vary 

 in ground-colour from creamy-white to pale salmon-pink. The 

 markings consist of specks and small spots of chestnut and lavender 

 or lilac, and these are generally densely set round the larger end, 

 where they coalesce and form a broad zone. The smaller half of 

 the egg is comparatively free from markings. Specimens vary from 

 68 to '76 in length, and from *5 to -55 in breadth. 



1. Kolaba, Bombay. Crowley Bequest. 

 8. Raipur, C. Provinces, India, 15th Hume Coll. 



June (F. R. Blewitt). 



2. Raipur, 20th June (F. JR. B.). Hume Coll. 

 5. Raipur (F. JR. B.). Hume Coll. 



1. Kotagherry, Nilghiri Hills, 10th Hume Coll. 



June (Miss Cockburn}. 



2. Pegu, 28th May (E. W. Oates). Hume Coll. 



3. Pegu, 28th May (E. W. O.). Hume Coll. 

 1. Pegu, 28th May (E. W. O.). Oates Coll. 

 1. Pegu, 25th July (E. W. O.}. Hume Coll. 

 3. Tavoy, Tenasserim, 4th April Hume Coll. 



(J. Darling}. 

 5. Tavoy, 21st April (J. I).). Hume Coll. 



