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coloured, spotted and blotched with rusty brown or pale chestnut 

 and underlying lavender-grey. The markings are generally clustered 

 round the broad end of the egg and form a strongly-marked but 

 irregular zone or wreath. Specimens measure from -85 to '95 in 

 length, and from -64 to -69 in breadth. 



4. Labuan, Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



3. Labuan, June (J. Whitehead). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Port Essington, Australia. Gould Coll. 

 3. New South Wales, 29th Sept. Gould Coll. 



(F. Strange). 

 3. Merungu, N.S.W., 10th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. North). 

 3, Lachlan River, N.S.W., 7th Sept. Crowley Bequest. 



(A. J. N.). 



2. Lachlan River (E. P. Ramsay). Crowley Bequest. 



Artamus mentalis, Jard. 

 (Plate XI. fig. 13.) 



Artamus mentalis, Finsch fy Hartl. Faun. Centralpotyn. p. 84, tab. i. fig. 5 

 (1867); Layard, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 434; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 xiii. p. 9 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 119, taf. iii. fig. 32 

 (1899) ; Sharpej Hand-l. iv. p. 261 (1903) . 



An egg of the Black-throated Swallow-Shrike in the Collection is 

 of a regular oval form and almost devoid of gloss. The ground-colour 

 is creamy white, spotted and blotched with rusty brown and 

 lavender-grey, the markings being mostly confined to a zone round 

 the larger end. It measures *?5 in length, and -59 in breadth. 



1. Fiji Islands (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Artamus fuscus, Vieitt. 

 (Plate XL fig. 10.) 



Artamus fuscus, Legge, Birds Ceylon,^. 666 (1879) ; Oates, Fauna Brit. 

 Ind., Birds, i. p. 498 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests fy Eggs Ind. Birds, 

 i. p. 350 (1889) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. p. 11 (1890) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 120 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 261 

 (1903). 



The eggs of the Ashy Swallow- Shrike are not generally separable 

 from those of A. leucogaster, but they appear to be more varied. In 

 some specimens, for instance, the markings are almost entirely of a 

 lavender colour, and in others they are similarly of a rusty brown 

 or pale chestnut colour. They measure from -81 to -98 in length, 

 and from '6 to *71 in breadth. 



1. India. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Sikhira, 5th June (J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



2. Sikhim (J. G.). Hume Coll. 



