484 CORVID^E. 



1. North India (Dr. Parker). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Dharmsala, Punjab, ICth May Hume Coll. 



(C. R. Cock]. 



1. Dharmsala, 20th May (C. R. C.). Hume Coll. 



1. Kotg-arh, Punjab, May. Hume Coll. 



1. Kotgarh, 3rd May. Hume Coll. 



4. Kotsarh, 4th May. Hume Coll. 



1. Kotgarh, 19th May. Hume Coll. 



Urocissa caerulea (Gould). 



Urocissa caerulea, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 74 (1877) ; Ogilrw- 

 Grant $ La Touche, Ibis, 1907, p. 159; Sharps, Hand-l. v. p. 606 

 (1909). 



An egg of the Formosan Blue Magpie does not differ from those 

 of U. occipitalis. It measures 1*29 by '95. 



1 . Lakuli , Formosa, 22nd May (P. A. Seebohm Coll. 

 Hoist). 



Urocissa whiteheadi, Ogilvie-Grant. 



LJrocissa whiteheadi, Ogilvie-Grctnt, Bull. B. O. C. x. p. xviii (1899); 

 id., P. Z. S. 1900, p. 462; Sharp f, Hand-l. v. p. 606 (1909); 

 Hartert, Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 254, pi. vi. (1910). 



Fggs of Whitehead's Magpie are of a regular oval shape and 

 almost devoid of gloss. The ground is pale blue or pale greenish- 

 blue, sparingly spotted or marked with short irregular lines and 

 dashes of light brown, with a few underlying spots and small 

 blotches of lilac-grey. They vary in length from 1*3 to 1'4, and 

 in breadth from -95 to -99. 



6. Five Finger Mountains, Central J. Whitehead, Esq. [C.]. 

 Hainan, April. 



Genus DENDROCITTA, Gould. 



Dendrocitta rufa (Scop.). 

 (Plate XXII. figs. 4-6.) 



Dendrocitta rufa, Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 76 (1877); Gates, 

 Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 30 (1889); Gates, ed. Hume, Nests fy 

 Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 19 (1889) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 607 (1909) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml, p. 360 (1910). 



Eggs of the Indian Tree-Pie are of a regular oval shape and very 

 slightly glossy. The ground ranges from white or creamy-white 

 to pale greenish- and bluish-white or pale green, and, in one 

 remarkable clutch, to dull greyish-green. The markings are also 



