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latter colour are quite free from markings, the great majority are 

 some thinly, some thickly, speckled and finely freckled with palo 

 greyish, greenish or purplish neutral tint. The markings, except 

 an occasional black hair-line, are, in at least two-thirds of the eggs, 

 so minute that, looked at from a distance of a couple of feet, the 

 eggs appear to be of one uniform grey, some darker, some lighter, 

 some with a sepia tinge, some with a slight brown tinge, some with 

 the faintest possible purple shade, some greenish ; but a grey stone- 

 colour is the prevailing tint of a large body of eggs, amongst which 

 perhaps one in twenty or thirty is pure white with onlv a few 

 brown specks scattered here and there, and a good many, perhaps 

 one in ten, are a very pale grey, which look white amongst the 

 darker varieties, though when placed beside a white egg they are 

 distinctly grey.*' They measure from -08 to '78 in length, and 

 from -5'2 to '58 in breadth. 



13. Pegu, June (E. If". Oates). Hume Coll. 



25. Pegu, July (E. W. O.). ' Hume Coll. 



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



47. Pegu, June (E. W. O.). Oates Coll. 



27. Pegu, July (E. W. O.). Oates Coll. 



0. Pegu, Aug. (E. W. O.). Oates Coll. 

 7. Pegu, Sept. (E. W. O). Oates Coll. 



1. Pegu, 24th Aug. (E. W. O.). Crowley Bequest. 

 3. Thatoue Creek, Teuasserim, 4th Crowley Bequest. 



Oct. (Capt. 7?. C. Beavan; 



Tristram Coll.}. 

 3. Thatone Creek, 4th Oct. (R. C. Crowley Bequest. 



JJ. : Tristram Coll.). 

 6. Siam, June(L.Layard: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.}. 



Genus PLOCEUS, Cuvier. 

 Ploceus bays, BlytU. 



Ploceua philippinus, Layard, A. M. N. H. 2nd ser. xiii. p. 257 (1854) ; 



Lefff/e, Birds Ceylon, p. 641 (1879). 

 Ploceus baya, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Bird*, ii. p. 175 (1890) ; id., ed. 



Hume, Nests $ Eggs 2nd. Birds, ii. p. 114 (1890); Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds B. M. xiii. p. 488 (1890); id., Hand-l. v. p. 480(1909); 



Xchrk. Kat. Eiersamnd. p. 340 (1910). 



The eggs of the Baya or Common Indian Weaver-Finch are long 

 ovals, pointed at the smaller end. They have a slight gloss and 

 are plain white. They measure from '7^ to -9 in length, and from 

 52 to -62 in breadth. 



3. Saharunpur, N.W. Provinces, Hume Coll. 

 India. 29th June. 



2. Agra, 80th July. Hume Coll. 

 2. Agra, 5th Aug. Hume Coll. 

 2. Agra, J 6th Aug. Hume Coll. 

 2. Agra, 23rd Aug. Hume Coll. 

 2. Agra, 4th Sept. Hume Coll. 



