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from white or pinkish-white to pinkish-grey, and they are elegantly 

 marked all over with clouds and smears of underlying lavender- 

 grey, and specks, spots, hieroglyphics, and fine hair-lines of purplish- 

 brown or black, similar to those found on the eggs of many of the 

 Buntings. Specimens measure from -65 to '76 in length, and from 

 49 to -53 in breadth. 



18. Labuan I., Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



2. Labuan I. (Sir If. Low: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 

 Coll.}. 



1 . Labuan I. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Labuan I., 27th May (J. Whitehead). Crowley Bequest. . 



Genus CHALCOPARIA, Cab. 



Chalcoparia phcenicotis (Temm.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 11.) 



Anthreptes phcenicotis, Shelleij, Mon. Nect. p. 325 (1876-80). 

 Anthothreptes phcenicotis, Gadow, Cat. Birds E, M. ix. p. 121 (1884). 

 Chalcoparia phrenicotis, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 373 



(1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests 8f Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 269 (1890) 



Sltarpe, Hand-l. v. p. 63 (1906). 



The eggs of the Euby-cheeked Sun-bird are of a blunt oval shape 

 and without gloss. They are dull white or pale cream-colour, very 

 densely mottled all over with lilac-grey, to such an extent in some 

 specimens that very little of the ground-colour is visible. In 

 some eggs there is a tendency for the markings to form a zone 

 round the broad end. Seven examples measure from '65 to '7 in 

 length, and from '44 to *49 in breadth. 



2. Pegu, 15th March (E. W. Oates). Gates Coll. 



1. Pegu, 6th July (E. W. 0.). Hume Coll. 



2. Pegu, Aug. (E. W. O.). Hume Coll. 



2. Pegu, 27th Aug. (E. W. O.). Crowley Bequest. 



Family MEL1PHAGIDJE. 



Genus MELITHREPTES, Vieill. 



Melithreptes atricapillus (Lath.}. 



Melithreptus lunulatus, Gmd f l, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 568 (1865) ; 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 204 (1884) ; North, Nests $ Eyas 

 Austr. Birds, p. 227 (1889) ; Nehrlt. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 80 (1899) ; 

 Campbell, Nests $ Eggs Austr. Bird*, i. p. 359, pi. 13 (1901). 



Melithreptus chloropsis, Gould, Handb. Birds Ausir. i. p. 570 (1865). 



Melithreptes atricapillus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 64 (19C6). 



The eggs of the Lunulated Honey- eater are of a blunt oval shape 



