318 



Of the two eggs of Da\ison's Stripe-throated Bulbul in the 

 Collection, one is blotched all over with pale chestnut and lilac, and 

 one is speckled and spotted with reddish brown and lavender. 

 They measure respectively : *9 by *65 ; *82 by *61. 



1. Pegu, 1st June (E. W. Gates}. Gates Coll. 



1. Pegu, 6th June (E. W. 0.). Crowley Bequest. 



Pycnonotus barbatus (Desf.). 



Ixos obscurus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. pi. 76. fig. 15 (1855-63). 



Ixus barbatus, Loche, Expl. Algerie, Ois. i. p. 288 (1867). 



Pycnonotus barbatus, Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 353 (1875) ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p, 146 (1881) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 44 



(1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 331 (1901). 



The eggs of the White-vented Bulbul appear to comprise all the 

 types of coloration of the eggs of Molpastes fuscus. They measure 

 from -89 to -98 in length, and from -68 to '75 in breadth. 



2. Tunis. L. Fraser, Esq. [0.]. 



2. Algeria (Loche). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



1. Algeria, May (Loche: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll). 



2. Algeria, 24th June (Loche : Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 



Pycnonotus arsinoe (Hempr. $ 



Pycnonotus arsinoe, Heuylin, Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 396, taf. xliii. fig. 18 

 (1873) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 148 (1881) ; id. Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 17 ; id. Hand-l. iii. p. 331 (1901). 



One egg of Hemprich's Bulbul in the Collection is white, densely 

 speckled with deep purplish red and lavender, while the other two 

 are speckled with reddish brown. They measure respectively : 

 8 by -64; -87 by -64; -86 by -64. 



1. Aden. 24th April. Col. J. W. Yerbury [P.]. 



2. Harrar, S. Abyssinia. M. P. Zaphiro [C.]. 



Pycnonotus sinensis (Gm.). 



Ixus sinensis, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 289. 



Pycnonotus sinensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 149 (1881) ; La 



Touche, Ibis, 1898, p. 365 ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 44 (1899) : 



Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 331 (1901). 



All the varied types of Bulbuls' eggs are represented in the 

 large series of eggs of the White-naped Bulbul in the Collection. 

 They measure from -8 to -92 in length, and from -58 to -7 in 

 breadth. 



