624 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



ali'xandrii, with the one exception of the length of the 

 wing : in tiie type-specimen that is 93 mm., which agrees 

 with Alethe alexandrii ; but in Cassin's description it is 

 given as "'41 inches" ( = 120 mm.). This is evidently a 

 mistake for 3| inches. 



TuiiDiNus FULVESCENS. [Akalat.] (Plate XII. figs. l-4_, 

 eggs.) 



Reich. V. A. iii. p. 736. 



Turdirostrift fnlvcscens Cass, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 54. 



Turdiiius cerviniventris Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 119 ; 

 Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 379. 



An examination of the type in the Museum of the 

 Academy of Sciences of Philadelphia has shewn that Cassin's 

 Turdirostris fulvescens is the species with no pure white on 

 the under parts. 



Nos. 3614, 3875, 4321, and another bird not saved, were 

 females, evidently sitting, and brought in with the nests on 

 which they were caught or shot with bow and arrow. 

 No. 3978 was a male with very large testes, that had been 

 sliot with bow and arrow on the nest, early in the morning ; 

 the eggs that came with this bird and nest are Nos. 396, 

 397. 



These nests were loosely made shallow cups of large 

 leaves^ more or less wet and decaying, with a few fine 

 stems, fibres, or tendrils inside. They were found on low 

 bushes on the borders of the forest, at all times of the year 

 except in the driest season. The eggs in every nest were 

 two in number; they vary in length from 20 to 23"5 mm., 

 and in width from 15 to 16*5 mm. 



[Eggs of this species vary very much in shape, markings, 

 and colour; some are of a long oval form and others of a 

 short blunt oval shape ; they are slightly glossy. The 

 ground-colour varies from pinkish-white or creamy-white to 

 pure white ; some have a few rather large spots and 

 blotches of bright maroon and purplish-grey rather sparingly 

 scattered all over the shell ; in others the entire shell is 

 densely mottled and spotted with ratiier fine markings of 



