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BTURNIDJE. 



Agra, 18th June. 



Agra, 19th June. 



Agra, 21st June. 



Agra, 22nd June. 



Agra, July. 



Agra, 22nd July. 



Agra, 23rd July. 



Agra, 4th Sept. 



Agra, 4th Sept. 



Agra, 5th Sept. 



Bareilly, 13th June. 



Bareilly, 14th June. 



Bareilly, 16th June. 



Bareilly, 21st June. 



Mirzapur ( W. E. Brooks : Tris- 

 tram Coll.). 



Jhansi, 13th June. 



Jhansi, 22nd June. 



Jabalpur, C. Provs. (W. Theo- 

 bald: Tristram Coll.). 



Saugor, C. Provs. 



Ahtoor, Madras, 18th Aug. 



Kotagherry, Nilghiri Hills, 20th 

 Feb. (Miss Cockburn). 



Kotagherry, 7th March (Miss 

 Cockburn). 



Kotagherry, 20th April (Miss 

 Cockburn). 



Pegu, April. 



Pegu, 9th June. 



Pegu, 17th July. 



Pegu, 28th July. 



Mauritius (E. Newton : Tristram 

 Coll.). 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll 



Gates Coll 

 Gates Coll. 

 Gates Coll. 

 Gates Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Acridotheres melanosternum, Leyge. 



Acridotheres tristis, Layard, Ann. Maq. N. H. 2nd ser. xiii. p. 218 



(1854). 

 Acridotheres melanosternus, Lcgye, Birds Ceylon, p. 670 (1879) ; Oates, 



Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 538 (1889) ; id., ed. Hume, Nests # 



Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 380 (1889) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xiii. 



p. 83 (1890). 

 Acridotheres melanosternum, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 520 (1909) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. EiersammL p. 349 (1910). 



Two eggs of the Common Ceylon Myna are of a regular oval 

 shape, fairly glossy, and of a light greenish-blue colour. They 

 measure 1-17 by -84, and 1-15 by -85. 



1. Ceylon (E. L. Layard). 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



J. Ueylon (JS. -L. .Layara). baivm-uoaman U( 



1. Anuradh-apura, Ceylon, May Crowlev Bequest. 



(A. L. Butler). 



