306 PTCNONOTID2E. 







Hypsipetes amanrotis (Temm.). 



Hypsipetes amaurotis, Blak. fy Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 240 ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. vi. p. 42 (1881) ; Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp. p. 64 

 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 42 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l iii. 

 p. 310 (1901). 



The eggs of the Red-eared Bulbul are of a broad oval form and 

 devoid of gloss. They are pale pinkish white, spotted, streaked, and 

 blotched, very evenly all over the shell, with lavender and deep 

 purplish red. Four examples measure respectively : 1*15 by *8 j 

 1-16 by -81 ; 1-09 by '79 ; 1-1 by '8. 



3. Japan (H. Pryer). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Fuji, Japan. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



Hypsipetes pryeri, Stejn. 



Hypsipetes squamiceps pryeri, Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp. p. 66 (1890). 

 Hypsipetes pryeri, Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 310 (1901). 



Four eggs of the Liu-Kiu Bulbul are of a regular oval form, 

 slightly glossy. In coloration they are pale pink, spotted all over 

 with dark reddish brown and lavender. They measure from 1'07 

 to 1-08 in length, and from -76 to -80 in breadth. 



4. Ishigaki Shima, Liu-Kiu Is., W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



27th June. [P.]. 



Genus IXOCINCLA, Blyth. 

 Ixocincla madagascariensis (P. L. S. Mull.). 







Hypsipetes ourovang, E. Newton, Ibis, 1863, p. 347, pi. xiii. fig. 5; 



Cowan, Proc. R. Phys. Soc. Edinb. vii. p. 148 (1882). 

 Hypsipetes madagascariensis, A. Newton, in Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. 



pp. 48, 49 (1877) ; Milne-Edwards $ Grandidier, Hist. Nat. Madag., 



pis. i. p. 372, pi. 303. fig. 9 (1879). 

 Ixocincla madagascariensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 45 (1881) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml p. 42 (1899) ; Sharpe. Hand-l. iii. p. 311 



(1901). 



The eggs of the Madagascar Bulbul vary from a narrow to a broad 

 oval form, and they possess but little gloss. They range from 

 pinkish white to salmon-pink in ground-colour, and they are thickly 

 spotted, streaked and blotched with deep reddish brown, maroon, 

 chocolate-brown and lavender. Some examples are merely spotted ; 

 others are marked with large confluent blotches. Examples measure 

 from 1 to I'l in length, and from '7 to '77 in breadth. 



15. Betsileo, Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 



6. Madagascar (Tristram Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Madagascar, 27th Nov. ( W. Deans Crowley Bequest. 



Cowan}. 



1. Madagascar, 4th Dec. ( W. D. C.). Crowley Bequest. 



