CHLOROPHONEFS. PELICINITJS. 291 



2. Japan (H. Pryer). Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Japan (H. P.). Seebohm Coll, 



3. Japan (H. P.). Seebohm Coll. 



Genus CHLOROPHONEUS, Cab. 



Chlorophoneus sulphureipectus (Less.). 



(Plate XIII. fig. 8.) 



Laniarius sulphureipectus, Sharpe, ed. Layards Birds S. Africa, p. 384 

 (1875-84) ; Stark $ Sclater, Fauna S. Africa. Birds, ii. p. 40 

 (1901). 



Laniarius sulphureipectus, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 159 (1883). 



Malaconotus sulphureipectus, Alexander, Ibis, 1899, p. 583. 



Chlorophoneus sulphureipectus, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 291 (1903). 



The eggs of the Orange-breasted Bush-Shrike are of a narrow 

 elliptical shape, somewhat pointed at both ends, and moderately 

 glossy. They are of a bluish-green colour, mottled all over with 

 pale brown and grey. Three examples measure respectively : *75 

 by -53 ; -76 by -53 ; '78 by '55. 



2. Bissao, Senegambia (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 

 1. [Senegambia.]* Crowley Bequest. 



Genus PELICINIUS, Boie. 

 Pelicinius gutturalis (P. L. S. Mull.). 



Lanius bacbakiri, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vb'g. tab. xxxi. fig. 12, a, b 



(1845-54). 

 Laniarius gutturalis, Sharpe, ed. Layard's Birds S. Africa, p. 385 (1875- 



84) ; Stark # Sclater, Fauna S. Africa, Birds, ii.p. 33 (1901). 

 Laniarius bakbakiri, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. viii. p. 162 (1883); 



Nehrk. Kai. Eiersamml. p. 70 (1899). 

 Pelicinius gutturalis, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 292 (1903). 



The eggs of the Bakbakiri Bush-Shrike are of a regular oval 

 shape and glossy. They are of a blue colour, spotted and blotched, 

 more densely on the broad half, with reddish brown and lavender 

 or lilac. They measure from -98 to 1*06 in length, and from *73 to 

 8 in breadth. 



6. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.], 



1. South Africa (E. L. Layard}. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 5. South Africa (E. L. L. : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.}. 



2. Cape Colony ( T. Atmore : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



* This egg, there can be little doubt, forms part of the same clutch as the 

 two preceding ones. 



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