152 



3. Agra, 21st June. 



4. Etawah, 15th April. 

 3. Etawah. 



2. Mirzapur, 26th April ( W. E. Brooks 



Tristram Coll.}. 



1. Mirzapur, 9th May ( W. E. B.: 

 Tristram Coll.}. 



3. Lucknow, 6th May 

 1. Lucknow, 24th May. 

 3. Lucknow, 13th June. 



1. Lucknow, 15th June. 



2. Allahabad, 25th March. 



3. Jhansi, 7th May. 



1. Jhansi, 10th June. 



2. Jhansi, 22nd June. 



3. Jhansi, 26th June. 



2. Central India, 30th March (R. C. 



Beavan: Tristram Coll.}. 

 2. Central India, 3rd April (R. C. B. : 



Tristram Coll.}. 

 1. Sambhur, 10th May (R. M. Adam}. 



1. Sambhur, 13th July (R. M. A.}. 



2. Saugor, C. Provinces, June. 



3. Saugor. 



1. Maunbhoom, 20th April (R. C. 

 Beavan}. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Thamnobia fulicata (Linn.'). 



Thamnobia fulicata, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 440 (1879); Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds B. M. vii. p. 54 (1883) ; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. 

 p. 115 (1890) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests $ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 76 

 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 51 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l iv. 

 p. 158 (1903). 



A series of forty eggs of the Brown-backed Indian Robin in the 

 Collection are principally of a regular oval form, but many are 

 somewhat elongated and a few pointed. They have a fair amount 

 of gloss. The ground-colour is white, often tinged with faint 

 green or pink, and this is rather closely spotted, speckled, streaked, 

 and mottled, with rich reddish or umber-brown and brownish yellow, 

 with some underlying lavender. The markings are most dense at the 

 larger end of the egg, where they often form an irregular zone or 

 cap. Some eggs are very boldly and handsomely blotched with 

 dark umber or reddish brown at the larger end, but striking 

 varieties appear to be rare. One example in the Collection is 

 almost spherical in form, of a pale blue colour, and very sparingly 

 dotted with yellowish. Specimens measure from '76 to *84 in 

 length, and from -55 to '62 in breadth. 



3. India. 



1. Ahmedabad, India, 2nd April. 



4. Sholapur (H. Wenden}. 



2. Sholapur, 8th June (H. W.}. 

 1. Sholapur, 12th June (H. W.}, 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



