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lahlora and C. erythronotus and are intermediate to them in size. 

 They measure from '82 to 1 in length, and from '68 to *79 in 

 breadth. 



The series contains three clutches of eggs of the same abnormal 

 coloration found among eggs of C. erythronotus, as already noticed. 



4. Sikhim (J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



'2. Sikhira (J. G.). Hume Coll. 



11. Sikhim (J. G.}. Hume Col], 



2. Sikhim, llth June (J. G.}. Hume Coll. 

 18. Mongphoo, Darjiling (J. G.), Hume Coll. 



3. Mongphoo, 20th April (J. G.). Hume Coll. 

 3. Monirphoo, 23rd April (/. G.). Hume Coll. 



3. Mongphoo, 23rd April (J. G.). Hume doll. 

 2. Mongphoo, 23rd April (J. G.\ Hume Coll. 

 2. Mongphoo, 29th April (J. G.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Mongphoo, 30th April (J. G.). Hume Coll. 



4. Faridpur, Bengal, 23rd April Hume Coll. 



(J. R. Cripps). 

 4. Faridpur, 24th April (J. R. C.). Hume Coll. 



Cephalophonens nasutus (Scop.). 



Lanius cephalomelas, Gadoic, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 269 (1883) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 72 (1899). 

 Cephalophoneus nasutus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 287 (1903). 



Three eggs of the Philippine Black-headed Shrike are of a wido 

 blunt oval shape, with little or no gloss. The ground-colour is 

 greenish-white or creamy-white, spotted and blotched, especially 

 round the larger end, with rusty brown and pale lavender under- 

 lying markings. They measure -85 to '9 in length, and '6 to *7 in 

 breadth. 



2. Philippine Islands (Moseley). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Luzon, Philippine Islands. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus OTOMELA, Bonap. 



Otomela phcenicuroides (Severtz.). 



(Plate XIII. fig. 4.) 



Lanius phoenicuroides, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 278 (1833) ; 



Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 468 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. 



Eiersamml. p. 73 (1899). 

 Otomela phcenicuroides, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 288 (1903). 



Eggs of the Rufous Shrike display considerable variety both in 

 size and markings. Four of those in the Museum Collection are of 

 a blunt broad oval form with a certain amount of gloss, but the 

 fifth, from the Altai Mountains, is of a narrower oval shape. The 

 ground-colour varies from greenish- white in the last named to 

 pinky or creamy-white in the former, in which the reddish-brown 

 and lavender spots and blotches are mostly grouped round the larger 

 end. In the Altai specimen the markings are distributed all over 



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