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3. Darjiling, May. Hume Coll. 



1. Davjiling, June. Hume Coll. 



10. Mong-phoo, Darjiling- (J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



12. Mongphoo, 1st 'June (J. G.). Hume ('oil. 



6. Mongphoo, 1st June (J. G.}. Hume Coll. 



1. Mongphoo, 15th June (J. G.). Hume Coll. 



2. Mongphoo, 17th Oct. (J. G.). Hume Coll. 



Liothrix luteus (Scop.). 



Liothrix luteus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 644 (1883) [part., China] ; 

 La Touche, Ibis, 1899, p. 404; Sharpe, Hand-L iv. p. 64 (1903). 



The eggs of the Chinese Liothrix are indistinguishable from those 

 of L. calipygus. 



2. Kuatun, China, May (J. D. La C. 13. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 



Touche}. 



3. Kuatun, 8th May (J. D. La T.}. C. 13. Rickett, Esq. [P.], 



4. Kuatun, loth May (J. I). La T.). C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.I 

 3. Kuatun, 25th May (J. D. La T.}. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.j. 



Genus PTERYTHIUS, Swains. 



Pterythius aeralatus (Tickell). 



(Plate III. fig. 3.) 



Ptereythrius aeralatns, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 114 (1883). 

 Pteruthius aeralatus, Gates, Fauna Brit. 2nd., Birds, i. p. 225 (1889). 

 Ptererythius serilatus, La Touche, Ibis, 1899, p. 408. 

 Pterythius aeralatus, Sharpe, Hand-L iv. p. 65 (1903). 



An egg of Tickell's Shrike-Tit in the Collection is very similar 

 to that of P. erythropterus, described below, but the markings at 

 the broad end are more delicate, and instead of forming a cap, are 

 disposed in the sbape of a very wide and straggling zone. It 

 measures *9 by '66. 



1. Kuatun, Fohkien, China, 25th April C. B. Rickett, Esq. fP.]. 

 (J. D. La Touche]. 



Pterythius erytliropterus ( Viy.). 

 (Plate III. fig. 2.) 



Pterervthrius erythropterus, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 113 



(1883). 

 Pteruthius erythropterus, Oates, Fauna Brit. 2nd., Birds, i. p. 224 



(1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs 2nd. Birds, i. p. 150 (1889). 

 Pterythius erythropterus, Sharpe, Hand-L iv. p. 65 (1903). 



An egg of the Red-winged Shrike-Tit in the Collection is of a 

 pointed oval form and moderately glossy. It is pinkish white, 

 thickly speckled and spotted with chestnut-brown and underlying 



