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Genus PELLORNEUM, Swains. 



Pellorneum mandellii, Blanf. 



Pellorneum nipalense, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 518 (1883) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 62 (1899). 

 Pellorneura mandellii, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 140 (1889) ; 



id. ed. Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 99 (1889); Stuart 



Baker, J. Bomb. N. H. Soc. viii. p. 180 (1893) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. 



p. 29 (1903). 



The eggs of Mandelli's Spotted Babbler are of a blunt oval shape, 

 and exhibit a slight gloss. The ground is white, and this is very 

 thickly speckled with chocolate-brown and reddish brown. These 

 markings are larger and more numerous at the thick end of the 

 egg, where they usually form an indistinct cap. The shell is also 

 marked with some pale purple underlying specks. The eggs 

 measure from -81 to *9 in length, and from *61 to *66 in breadth. 



1. Sikhim, 4th May. Hume Coll. 



1. Sikhim, 5th June. Hume Coll. 



1 . Sikhim. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Darjiling, July. Hume Coll. 

 4. Mongphoo, Darjiling (J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



2. Assam, 18th April. Crowley Bequest. 



Pellorneum ruficeps, Swains. 

 (Plate I. fig. 21.) 



Pellorneum ruficeps, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 520 (1883) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 141 (1889); id. ed. Hume, Nests # 

 Eggs Ind. Birds, \. p. 100 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 63 

 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 30 (1903). 



The single egg of the Spotted Babbler in the Collection resembles 

 the eggs of P. mandellii. It measures *84 by '63. 



1. Kotagherry, Nilghiri Hills, 28th Hume Coll. 

 March (Miss Cockburn). 



Pellorneum subochraceum, Sivinh. 

 (Plate I. fig. 20.) 



Pellorneum subochraceum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 521 (1883) ; 

 Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 142 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, 

 Nests fy Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 100 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. 

 p. 62 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 136 (1903). 



The eggs of the Burmese Spotted Babbler are inseparable from 

 those of P. mandellii, but they are, on the average, rather smaller. 

 They measure from '78 to "86 in length, and from *6 to *64 in 

 breadth. 



1. Pegu, 2nd May (E. W. Oates: Crowley Bequest. 

 Seebohm Coll.). 



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