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" end. In some eggs all the markings are very fine and minute, 

 " laid on, as it were, with a very fine-pointed brush ; in others they 

 "are coarse and streaky, and occasionally bold, blotchy, and well 

 " defined. 



" Specimens occur which could scarcely be separated from 

 " varieties of the English Eing-Ouzel's egg. The eggs have usually 

 " a slight gloss, and some specimens are highly glossy. As already 

 " mentioned, in some examples secondary markings, small purple 

 " clouds and spots, appear to underlie the red-brown blotches." 



In size the eggs range from 1'02 to 1*30 in length, and from *78 

 to -93 in breadth. 



5. Nilghiri Hills (Tristram Coll.}. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Nilghiri Hills, 1st April. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Nilg-hiri Hills, April. Hume Coll. 



4. Nilghiri Hills, April. Hume Coll. 



3. Nilghiri Hills, May. Hume Coll. 



5. Nilghiri Hills, 9th May. Hume Coll. 



2. Ootacamund, Nilghiri Hills. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Curzon, Nilghiri Hills, 4th April. Hume Coll. 



2. Curzon, 8th April. Hume Coll. 



3. Curzon, 30th April. Hume Coll. 



3. Coonoor, Nilghiri Hills. Hume Coll. 

 2. Coonoor. Hume Coll. 

 1 . Coonoor, 3rd April. Hume Coll. 



1. Coonoor, 9th April. Hume Coll. 



2. Coonoor, 10th April. Hume Coll. 

 1. Coonoor, 20th May. Hume Coll. 



4. Kotagherry, Nilghiri Hills, 1st May Hume Coll. 



(Miss Cockburn). 

 1. Kotagherry, 5th May (Miss Cock- Hume Coll. 



burn). 

 1. Kotagherry, 9th May (Miss Cock- Hume Coll. 



burn). 

 4. Kotagherry, 14th May (Miss Cock- Hume Coll. 



burn). 

 4. Kotagherry, 16th May (Miss Cock- Hume Coll. 



burn). 



1. Kotagherry, 17th May (Miss Cock- Hume Coll. 



burn). 



2. Kotagherry, 30th May (Miss Cock- Hume Coll. 



burn). 



2. Kotagherry, 10th June (Miss Hume Coll. 



Cockburn). 



Merula bourdilloni, Seebohm. 



Merula bourdilloni, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 251 (1881) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit. 2nd., Birds, ii. p. 125 (1890) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests 



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Ind. Birds, ii. p. 91 (1890) ; Sharps in Seebohm's Mon. 

 Turdida, ii. p. 75 (1900) ; id. Hand-l. iv. p. 119 (1903). 



The egg of Bourdillon's Ouzel in the Collection, which is one of 

 those taken b5 T Major Terry and mentioned in Hume's * Nests and 



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