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Genus LATICILLA, Blyth. 



Laticilla burnesi (Blyth). 

 (Plate IX. fig. 20.) 



Laticilla burnesi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 119 (18S3) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit. 2nd., Birds, i. p. 380 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests 8f 

 Eggs 2nd. Birds, i. p. 247 (1889) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 200(1903). 



The eggs of the Long-tailed Grass- Warbler are of a rather blunt 

 oval shape, and exhibit a considerable amount of gloss. They are 

 white in some cases, pale green in others, densely spotted and 

 blotched with umber-brown and lavender or with brownish chest- 

 nut and lavender. The markings are generally coarse and confluent 

 at the broad end. Specimens measure from *71 to '82 in length, 

 and from *53 to '57 in breadth. 



2. Eastern Narra, Sind (S. Doig). Hume CoL 



2. Eastern Narra, llth March (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 8th April (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 3rd June (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



Genus NESILLAS, Oberholser. 

 Nesillas typica (Rartl.). 



Ellisia typica, E. Newton, Ibis, 1863, p. 343, pi. xiii. fig. 6 ; Cowan, Proc. 



R. Phys. Soc. Edinb. vii. p. 148 (1882) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. 



p. 120 (1883) j Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 52 (1899) 

 Ellisia madagascariensis typica, Milne-Edwards $ Grandidier, Hist. Nat. 



Madag., Ois. i. p. 329, pi. 303. figs. I, I a (1879). 

 Nesillas typica, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 201 (1903). 



The eggs of Hartlaub's Warbler are of the same type as those of 

 Hypolais hypolais and its allies. They are of a greyish-pink colour, 

 marked with spots, streaks, blotches, and twisted lines of deep 

 purplish brown and lavender-grey. On some specimens the lines 

 are numerous and wind about the broader half of the shell, much 

 as in some of the eggs of the Buntings. Other specimens are 

 blotched and clouded with brownish pink, the dark markings and 

 lines of purplish brown being nearly entirely absent. Specimens 

 measure from ; 77 to *87 in length, and from '55 to '65 in breadth. 



