UUOCISSA. 4S:f 



Eggs of the Red-billed Blue Magpie are of a regular oval shape, 

 and almost devoid of gloss. The ground is pale buff or pale cream- 

 colour, marked all over the shell, but especially at the larger end, 

 with small spots and dots of umber-brown or reddish-brown and 

 underlying lilac-grey; there are also a few small blotches of the 

 latter colour, mostly about the larger end. They vary in length 

 from 1-22 to 1-35, and in breadth from -92 to *97. 



:;. Mussoorie (T. Huttoti). Hume Coll. 



2. Myawadi, Thoungyeen, Tenas- Hume Coll. 



serim, 19th March ( C. T. Bing- 

 ham). 



4. Meplay River, Tenasserim, 5th Hume Coll. 

 March (C. T. B.}. 



3. Meplay River, 14th April ( C. T. Hume Coll. 



B.). 



Urocissa erythrorhyncha (Gmel.). 



Urocissa erythrorhyncha, Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 71 (1877) ; 

 id., Hand-l. v. p. 606 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 360 (1910). 

 Urocissa sinensis, David Sr Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 375 (1877). 



Eggs of the Chinese Red-billed Blue Magpie resemble those of 

 U. occipitalis described above, but vary much in the colour of 

 the ground and markings ; the former may be greenish-white, 

 pale olive, or olive-brown, and the latter vary from very small 

 close- set spots to rather large scattered spots of umber-brown and 

 lilac-grey. 



3. China (R. Swinhoe : Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



4. Pekin (It. &). Seebohm Coll. 



2. Chin-kiang, Kiang-su, 12th June. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C.I. 



3. Kuatun, Foh-kien, 28th April. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C.I. 



2. Foochow, April. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C.J. 



4. Foochow, May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.J. 



3. Foochow, May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. " 



1. Foochow, 3rd May. C. B. Rickett, Esq. 



4. Foochow, June. " C. B. Rickett, Esq. 



2. Auiov (^. \ Seebohm Coll. 



Urocissa flavirostris (Blytli}. 



Urocissa flavirostris, Cock Sf Marshall, Str. F. i. p. 357 (1873) ; Hume $ 

 Marshall, Lahore to Yark. p. 242 (1873) ; Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 iii. p. 72 (1877) ; Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 27(1889) ; 

 Oates, ed. Hume, Nests $ Egc/s Ind. Birds, i. p. 16 (1889) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 606 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 360 (1910). 



Eggs of the Yellow-billed Blue Magpie do not differ from those 

 of U. occipitalis. One egg with a pale greyish-olive ground has 

 almost the whole of the markings concentrated in a dense zone 

 round the larger end ; another has the markings mostly at the 

 smaller end. 



