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Brachypteryx poliogyna mindorensis Hart. 

 Highlands of Mindoro. 



B. poliogyna brunneiceps Ogilvie-Grant. 

 Negros. 



B. poliogyna mindanensis Mearns. 



Mountains of Mindanao (Mount Apo) . 



B. poliogyna malindangensis Mearns. 



Mindanao (Mount Malindang). I only know this form 

 from the description, but, judging from the latter, it would 

 only be the representative from the mountain of Malindang, 

 in North-western Mindanao. 



Mr. R, H. Read exhibited a series of eggs of British 

 Thrushes, mostly Song-Thrush, Missel-Thrush, and Black- 

 bird — among which were many handsomely marked sets 

 which were much admired. 



Intei'esting eggs of the Song-Thrush were a pure white 

 egg with rust-red and dark red spots which Mr. Read had 

 obtained this year in Sussex, a set of seven spotless blue 

 eggs, a set of three deserted eggs with Cuckoo's egg, and 

 set of two with three Hedge-Sparrow^s eggs in the same 

 nest. 



Among the Missel-Thrushes' eggs were some heavily 

 blotched and others spotted with bright red from the apple 

 orchards of Somerset. 



Among the Blackbirds' eggs were a set of five — four of 

 which were a pure, bright, spotless blue, the fifth being faintly 

 spotted — taken on the ground in Essex, and another set in 

 which the ground-colour was entirely hidden by the red- 

 brown markings. These latter were taken in Scotland 

 close to where Mr. Read found, on the same day, a set of 

 red eggs of the Sedge- Warbler. 



Although, generally speaking, the eggs of these three 

 species were readily distinguishable in clutches, yet from 

 each species individual eggs could be selected, both spotless 

 and spotted or blotched, with rust-red markings of which it 



