8 DIC-SID.S. 



Eggs of the Scarlet-backed Flower-pecker are of a pointed oval 

 shape, plain white and without any gloss. They vary from '55 to 

 58 in length, and from -38 to *42 in breadth. 



1. Dibrugarh, Assam, 24th May ( J. R. Hume Coll. 



Cripps). 



2. Pegu, 1st April (E. W. Oates). Gates Coll. 



2. Pegu, 9th April (E. W. O.). Oates Coll. 



1. Pegu, 28th March (E. W. O.). Crowley Bequest, 



Dicaeum nigrimentum, Salvad. 



Dicaeum nigrimentum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 17 (1885) ; id., 

 Hand-L v. p. 21 (1906). 



Three eggs of the Black-chinned Flower-pecker are uniform 

 white and of an elongate oval form. They measure from '53 to 

 58 in length, and from -39 to -4 in breadth. 



3. Singapore, 10th March (J. White- Crowley Bequest. 



head). 



Dicaeum hirundinaceum (Shaw). 



Dicaeum hirundinaceum, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 581 (1865) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 19 (1885) ; North, Nests $ Eggs 

 Austr. Birds, p. 236 (1889) ; Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Birds, 

 i. p. 437 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 22 (1906). 



The eggs of the Swallow Flower-pecker are of an elongate oval 

 form, slightly glossy and plain white. They measure from '64 to 

 7 in length, and from '43 to '5 in breadth. 



6. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



3. South Australia (G. F. Angas). Gould Coll. 



1. Victoria. Govt. of Victoria [P.]. 



Dicaeum haematostictum, Sharpe. 



Dicaeum haematostictum, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 35 (1885) ; 

 Ogilme-Grant fy Whitehead, Ibis, 1896, p. 553 ; 1898, p. 243, pi. vi. 

 fig. 2 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 25 (1906). 



An egg of the Blood-breasted Flower-pecker is of a regular oval 

 shape, without any gloss. It is pale greenish-white, spotted and 

 blotched with pale olive-brown and clouded with lilac-grey. The 

 markings are chiefly confined to the larger end of the egg. It 

 measures *65 by '49. 



1. Canloan Volcano, Central Negros, J. Whitehead, Esq. [C.]. 

 Philippine Islands, 19th March. 



Dicaeum trigonostigma (Scop.). 



Dicaeum trigonostioma, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 343 ; id., Cat. Birds 

 B. M. x. p. 38 (1885) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 84 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l v. p. 26 (1906). 



