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Western Asia, P. p. bottanensis of Tibet and Chinese Tibet, 
and P. p. sericea of China, all laying eggs which can well 
be discriminated by size, colour, and character from one 
another. 
Of Dendrocitta sinensis I show but one form, himalayensis, 
from the Indian Himalayas. This shows a very great 
individual variation, but, as far as I can'see, the same range 
of variation obtains in all the subspecies. 
I show also boxes of Nuci/raga hemispila, not to be distin- 
guished from M. caryocatactes and its various races nearer 
home, and also a box of eggs of Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraa, 
which range larger than our home birds, which I should 
consider quite easily separable from the Swedish and 
Northern European and Asiatic birds. 
The two small boxes contain the very uncommon eggs of 
Podoces humilis, a Ground-Chough of the Tibetan ranges 
above 12,000 ft., and the equally rare eggs of the tiny 
Raquet-tailed Magpies from extreme 8. Burma, Siam, and 
the Malay Peninsula. It will be noticed, however, that 
whereas the latter are typical little Magpies’ eggs, the 
former are sui generis amongst the Corvide as are the birds 
which lay them. Here we have the eggs of the one bird 
showing how rightly they are placed amongst the Corvide, * 
whilst the others lead us to infer that for them such a 
position must be wrong and doubtless the Podoces should be 
placed in a separate family. 
The other eggs I show, specimens of some of the Dicruride, 
Dissemurus paradiseus, and Dicrurus leucopheus hopwoodz, 
are exhibited to emphasize their very close resemblance to 
those of some of the Paradiseidz which are being shown 
to-night. Judging from their eggs one would expect the 
Drongos to be a connecting-link between the Birds of 
Paradise on one hand and the Shrikes on the other—a 
position, I think, they might very fitly hold. 
Nearly all the Drongos lay eggs which are subject to a 
range of variation running from pure white to a very deep 
richly-blotched pink, but “carriage” is a difficulty which 
has prevented my bringing up representative series of the 
