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pinkish-white, and the markings, arranged almost entirely in an 

 irregular /one round the larger end, consist of smudgy purplish- 

 grey under-markings with overlying spots, scrolls, and lines of deep 

 brown. It measures '64 by '40. 



1. Amboina (Nekrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus ARACHNOTHERA, Temm. 



Araclmothera longirostris (Lath.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 8.) 



Arachnothera longirostra, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 357 (1876-80). 



Arachnothera longirostris, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 103 (1884) j 

 Gates, Fauna Brit. 2nd., Birds, ii. p. 371 (1890) ; Baker, Ibis, 1896, 

 p. 345 ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 78 (1899) : Sharpe, Hand-l v. 

 p. 58 (1906). 



Eggs of the Little Spider-hunter are of a regular oval form and 

 devoid of gloss. The ground-colour is white, and the markings, 

 mostly concentrated into a strongly defined zone round the larger 

 end of the shell, consist of pale violet-grey, and small, usually very 

 small, closely approximated surface-spots of reddish-brown or light 

 red. The eggs measure from -74 to -77 in length, and from -49 to 

 51 in breadth. 



2. Margherita, Assam, 12th May. E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. [0.1. 



3. Jillalpur, Cachar, 4th' April E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. [0.1. 



(G. H. A. Hole). 

 2. Java, 23rd June. Crowley Bequest. 



Arachnothera magna (Hodgs.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 13.) 



Arachnothera magna, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 347 (1876-80) ; Gadow, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 105 (1884) ; Oates, Fauna Brit. 2nd., Birds, 

 ii. p. 369 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests # Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 268 

 (1890) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml p. 78 (1899) : Sharpe, Hand-l v. 

 p. 58 (1906). 



The eggs of the Large Indian Spider-hunter are of a pointed 

 oval form and very smooth and glossy. Two specimens are of a 

 plain brownish-bronze colour ; another is entirely of a purplish- 

 brown colour ; and other specimens are purplish-brown, mottled 

 with a darker shade of the same. Six examples measure from 

 86 to -97 in length, and from -63 to '72 in breadth. 



1. Darjiling, Sikhim (Z. Mandelli). Hume Coll. 



2. Mongphoo, Darjiling (/. Gammie). Hume Coll. 

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

 1. Myawaddy, Tenasserim, 17th Hume Coll. 



April (C. T. Bingham). 



