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collection. One egg white without markings, tlie other only 

 slightly marked. 



(e) A set of five Red-backed Shrike (British) with three 

 white eggs, the other two m ith only one or two pale lilac spots. 



(/) A clutch of six Tree-Pipit (British). Pale blue eggs, 

 with faint reddish markings. 



Mr. D. W. MussELWHiTE exhibited a series of eggs of the 

 Pallid Shrike [Lanius excubitor elegans) collected in the 

 neighbourhood of Kantara, Suez Can;il. All the eggs w'ere 

 taken by the exhibitor, and mostly in 1919. 



Mr. Renaut exhibited a fine series of British Warbler's 

 eggs. These included a set of Reed- Warbler's resembling 

 the Marsii-Warbler's, and four fine sets laid by the latter 

 bird. Also eggs of the Grasshopper and the Dartford 

 Warbler showing distinct types. 



Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker exhibited a large number of eggs 

 of Indian Warblers and made the follow ing remarks : — 



" The first five boxes exhibited contain series of eggs of 

 the various geographical races of Priiiia inornata and arc 

 very interesting in that, unlike what obtains amongst the 

 vast majority of eggs of geographical races of the same 

 species, these little birds show an extraordinary difference 

 in the coloration. Prinia i. jerdoni from Ceylon has very 

 bright blue eggs well marked witli tiny black horse-hair 

 lines chietiy intertwined at the larger end. Less numerous 

 are large blotches and spots of deep purple-black and black. 

 In India the typical /*. i. inornata has eggs precisely the 

 same but a trifle less brilliantly blue and with, as a series, 

 fewer lines and more blotches. Next in Assam and Upper 

 Burma we have P. i. burmanica, similar but again duller, 

 and rarely with a reddish tinge ; below these, in southern 

 Burma, we have P. i. blanjordi, in which the prevailing 

 tinge is pink, the blue having practically disappeared except 

 in a very few clutches. Finally, we come to Siam, in which 

 country we find P. i. herherii laying eggs of a brilliant pale 

 pink, whilst the markings aie of deep chocolate-red, blood- 

 red, and blackish red. We thus pass from what, broadly 



