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some of the eggs of Arachnechthra asiatica. It is greenish-white, 

 densely freckled with greyish-brown. It measures -61 by -42. 



1. Niteliiri Hills, S. India, Oct. Hume Coll. 



(W. Damsoti}. 



Leptocoma hasselti (Temm.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 24.) 



Cinnyris hasselti, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 127 (1876-80) ; Gadow, Cat. 



'liinh B. M. ix. p. 67 (1884). 

 Arachnechthra hasselti, Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 360 (1890) ; 



id., etl. Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 258 (1890). 

 Leptocoma hasselti, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 42 (1906). 



Two eggs of Van Hasselt's Sun-bird are of an ordinary oval 

 form and rather glossy. They are brown, with a zone of a some- 

 what darker shade of the same colour round the broader end and 

 a few indistinct freckles elsewhere on the shell. Two examples 

 measure respectively : -57 by -4 ; -58 by -4. 



2. Salang, Malay Peninsula, 28th Feb. Hume Coll.. 



(J. Darling}. 



Leptocoma zeylonica (Linn.}. 



Cinnvris zeylonica, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 137 (1876-80) ; Leqqe, B. 



Ceylon, p. 569 (1879) ; Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 64 (1884) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 77 (1899). 

 Arachnerhthra zeylonica, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 64 



(1890) ; id., cd. Hume, Next* # Eijgs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 263 (1890). 

 Leptocoma zeylonica, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 42 (1906). 



The eggs of the Ceylonese, or Purple-rumped, Sun-bird do not 

 differ from those of ArachnecJithra asiatica either in colour or size. 



2. Maunbhum, Bengal, 16th December Crowley Bequest. 

 (11. C. Beavan: Tristram Coll.). 



1. Raipur, C. Provinces (F. jR. Hume Coll. 



Blewitt). 



2. Salem, Madras, Aug. (A. G. R. Hume Coll. 



Theobald). 



1. Southern India, 9th June. Hume Coll. 



1. Lunugala, Ceylon, 6th April (A. L. Crowley Bequest. 



Butler). 

 1. Lunugala, May (A. L. B.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus HERMOTIMIA, Reichenb. 



Hermotimia corinna, Sdlvad. 



Cinnyris corinna?, Shelley, Monor/r. Nect. p. 117 (1876-80). 

 Cinnyris aspasiae, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 68 (1884) [part.]. 

 Hermotimia corinna, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 42 (1906). 



An egg of the Duke- of- York-Island Sun-bird is of an oval form 



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