OTOCOMPSA. 8PIZIXTJS. 323 



Otocompsa flaviventris (Ticlcell). 



Otocompsa flaviventris, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 161 (1881); 

 Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 278 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, 

 Nests fy Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 183 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 45 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 333 (1901). 



The egg of the Black-crested Yellow Bulbul in the Collection is 

 of a creamy-white colour, thickly mottled and speckled with red 

 and lavender. It measures '85 by *6. 



1. Thoungyin River, Tenasserim, 14th Hume Coll. 

 April (C. T. Bingham}. 



Genus SPIZIXUS. Blyth. 



Spizixus cinereicapillus, Swinh. 



(Plate X. fig. 20.) 



Spizixus cinereicapillus, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 370; Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. vi. p. 173 (1881) ; id. Hand-l. iii. p. 335 (1901). 



An egg which is said to be that of the Formosan Finch-billed 

 Bulbul is of an extremely broad oval form, and nearly devoid of all 

 gloss. It is of a pale pink colour, very densely mottled all over 

 with purplish red and lilac. It measures -9 by '7. 



1 Formosa (R. Swinhoe : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 

 Coll.). 



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