110 MOTACILLID^l. 



and clouded all over with greyish-brown ; one of the eggs has a 

 dark hair-line at the larger end. 



2. Antipodes I., New Zealand. Lt. Kennett Dixon, R.N. [P.]. 



Genus OREOCORYS, Sharpe. 



Oreocorys sylvanus (Hodgs.}. 



(Plate VI. figs. 2 & 3.) 



Oreocorys sylvanus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 622 (1885) ; Oates, 

 fauna Brit. Ind., Birch, ii. p. 313 (1890) ; id., e.d. Hume, Nests fy 

 Eggs 2nd. Birds, ii. p. 217 (1890) ; Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 152 (1906;. 



The eggs of the Upland Pipit are of abroad oval shape and moderately 

 glossy. They are purplish- white, profusely speckled and spotted with 

 reddish- or purplish-brown and underlying dark purplish-grey or 

 lavender. The markings, though dense everywhere, are very 

 crowded together at the broad end and form a confluent cap or 

 zone. Specimens measure from -82 to '98 in length, and from -63 

 to '72 in breadth. 



9. Kotgarh, Himalayas (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 



1. Kotgarh, 2nd April (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 



1. Kotgarh, 4th May (A. O.H.}. Hume Coll. 



3. Kotgarh, 6th May (A. O. H.}. Hume Coll. 



8. Kotgarh, 15th May (A. O. If.). Hume Coll. 



1. Kotgarh, 26th May (A. O. H.}. Hume Coll. 



2. Kotgarh, 29th May (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Kotgarh, 3rd June (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 



4. Kotgarh, 4th June (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 



1. Kotgarh, 15th May (A. O. II. : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



Genus MACRONYX, Swains. 



Macronyx capensis, Linn. 



(Plate VI. figs. 1 & 4.) 



Macronyx capensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 530 (1875-84); 

 Butler, Feilden 8f Reid, Zool 1882, p. 335 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 x. p. 623 (1885) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 93 (1899) ; Stark, 

 Faun. S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 238 (1900) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. iii. p. 2 

 (1902) ; Sharps, Hand-L v. p. 153 (1906). 



The eggs of the Cape Long-clawed Pipit are of a very blunt oval 

 shape and slightly glossy. The eggs of one clutch in the Collection 

 are cream-colour, profusely mottled and streaked all over with 

 lilac-red and pale lavender. Those of two other clutches are dull 

 white, spotted and blotched with pale brown and underlying dull 

 purple. They measure from *U2 to I'O in length, and from '68 to 

 72 in breadth. 



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



3. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [C.J. 



2. Ladysmith, Natal, Nov. Capt. Savile G. Reid [P.]. 



9. Transvaal (T. Ayres: TristramColL). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Johannesburg, Transvaal, Dec. C. C. Roberts, Esq. [P.]. 



