92 TURDID^. 



white, somewhat thickly speckled and mottled, especially at the 

 broad end, with bright chestnut, brownish lilac, and lavender-grey. 

 Five examples measure from -91 to 1*02 in length, and from '67 to 

 *7 in breadth. 



3. Santa Elena, Antioquia, U.S. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Colombia (T. K. Salmon}. 

 2. U.S. Colombia. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus COCHOA, Hodgs. 



Cochoa viridis, Hodgs. 

 (Plate V. fig. 6.) 



Cochoa viridis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 2 (1879) ; Oates, Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 160 (1890) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests $ Egyslnd. 

 Birds, ii. p. Ill (1890) ; Sharpe, Hand-L iv. p. 115 (1893). 



An egg of the Green Thrush in the Collection is elliptical in shape 

 and very glossy. It resembles many of the eggs of the Common 

 Blackbird (Merula merula}, being pale greyish green, densely speckled 

 and mottled with reddish brown and pale lavender. It measures 

 1-03 by '75. 



1. Native Sikhim, 10,000 feet, June. Hume Coll. 



Genus MIMOCICHL k, Scl. 



Mimocichla rubripes (Temm.). 

 (Plate V. fig. 17.) 



Turdus rubripes, de la Sagra, Cuba, Ois. p. 46 (1839). 



Mimocichla rubripes, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 283 (1881) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. EiersammL p. 38 (1899) ; Sharpe in Seebuhirts Mon. Turdidce, 



ii. p. 213 (1902) ; id. Hand-L iv. p. 115 (1903). 



A single egg of the Cuban Grey Thrush in the Collection is rather 

 handsome. It has a cream-coloured ground, and some shell- 

 markings of lavender-grey, the whole surface being thickly streaked 

 and mottled with rich though not very dark chestnut. Size 1*19 



by -88. 



1. Cuba (Tristram Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MERULA, Leach. 



Merula merula (Linn.). 

 (Plate VIII. figs. 1-4 & 7.) 



Turdus merula, Thien. Fortpfanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxiv. fig. 20, a-c (1845- 

 54) ; Baedeker, Eier Fur. Vog. tab. 4. fig. 8, tab. 75. fig. 9 

 (1855-63) ; Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 91, pi. xxv. figs, i 



