1 00 TURDID2E. 



Eggs of Indian Birds,' 2nd ed. vol. ii. p. 91, is of a regular oval shape 

 and possesses a considerable amount of gloss. It is of a pale greenish- 

 blue colour, mottled and speckled all over with dull rufous brown 

 and underlying lilac. It measures 1-07 by -81, and is undistinguish- 

 able from small eggs of M. simillima. 



1. Palani Hills, Southern India, Major Horace A. Terry [P.]. 



3rd June. 



Mernla kinnisi, Blyth. 



Turdus kinnisi, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 449 (1879). 



Merula kinnisi, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 2-52 (1881) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 124 (1890) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests Sf 

 Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 90 (1890); Sharpe in Seebohm 's Mon. 

 Turdidce, ii. p. 77 (1900) ; id. Hand-l. iv. p. 119 (1903). 



Two eggs of the Ceylon Ouzel in the Collection are somewhat 

 unlike both in size and in the character of the markings. The 

 ground-colour of both is a pale bluish green : the smaller egg, 

 which measures 1-15 by '86, is boldly blotched, especially at the 

 larger end, with rich rufous brown, with a very few smaller spots of 

 the same colour here and there ; the larger specimen measures 1*25 

 by *89, and is more closely covered with smaller spots of a rather 

 darker tint, forming at the larger end a thickish cap. 



1. Uda Pusulawa, Ceylon, Jan. (A. L. Crowley Bequest. 

 Butler). 



1. Newara Eliya, Ceylon, Jan. (A.L. Crowley Bequest. 



Butler). 



Merula ludovicise, Lort Phillips. 

 (Plate Y. fig. 7.) 



Merula ludoviciae, Lort Phillips, Bull. B. O. C. iv. p. xxxvi (1895) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1895, p. 383 ; id. Ibis, 1896, p. 78 ; Sharpe in Seebohm' s Mon. 

 Turdida, ii. p. 79 (1900) ; id. Hand-l. iv. p. 119 (1903). 



As the two eggs of the Somali-land Ouzel in the Collection were 

 taken by Mr. Lort Philips in Somaliland, and described by him in 

 the ' Ibis ' for 1896, we cannot do better than quote from his 

 account of the birds and their nest as follows : " The eggs were 

 1 two in number, of a very delicate type for a Blackbird. The 

 ' ground-colour is a very pale greenish blue, plentifully sprinkled 

 ' with tiny spots of rufous, clouding together at the larger end ; 

 ' the underlying markings and spots are faint purplish grey. Axis 

 * 1*10 in., diam. '75 in." 



2. Somali-land (E. L. P.). E. Lort Phillips, Esq. [P.]. 



