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some of the eggs of Araehnechthra asiatica. It is greenish-white, 

 densely freckled with greyish-brown. It measures -61 by -42. 



1. Nilghiri Hills, S. India, Oct. Hume Coll. 



( W. Davison). 



Leptocoma hasselti (Temm.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 24.) 



Cinnyris hasselti, Shelley, Monogr. Ned. p. 127 (1876-80) ; Gadow, Cat. 



Birds B. M. ix. p. 67 (1884). 

 Araehnechthra hasselti, Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 360 (1890) ; 



id., ed. Hume, Nests 8r Bggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 2-58 (1890). 

 Leptocoma hasselti, Sharpe, Hand-l. y. p. 42 (1906). 



Two eggs of Van Hasselt's Sun-bird are of an ordinary oval 

 form and rather glossy. They are brown, with a zone of a some- 

 what darker shade of the same colour round the broader end and 

 a few indistinct freckles elsewhere on the shell. Two examples 

 measure respectively : "57 by -4 ; -58 by '4. 



2. Salang, Malay Peninsula, 28th Feb. Hume Coll. 



(.7". Darling). 



Leptocoma zeylonica {Linn.). 



Cinnyris zeylonica, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 137 (1876-80) ; Leqqe, B. 



Ceylon, p. 569 (1879) ; Gadoiv, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 64 (l884) ; 



Neh7-k. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 77 (1899). 

 Araehnechthra zeylonica, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 64 



(1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nents Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 263 (1890). 

 Leptocoma zeylonica, Sharpe, Harid-l. v. p. 42 (1906). 



The eggs of the Ceylonese, or Piirple-rumped, Sun-bird do not 

 dififer from those of Araehnechthra asiatica either in colour or size. 



2. Maunbhum, Bengal, 16th December Crowley Bequest. 

 (2J. C.Beavan: Tristram Coll.). 



1. Eaipur, C. Provinces {F. R. Hume Coll. 



Blewitt). 



2. Salem, Madras, Aug. {A. G. M. Hume Coll. 



Theobald). 

 1. Southern India, 9th June. Hume Coll. 



1. Lunugala, Ceylon, 6th April {A. L. Crowley Bequest. 



Butler). 

 1. Lunugala, May (A. L. B.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus HEEMOTIIlIIA, Beicheni. 

 Hermotijnia corinna, Sahad. 



Cinnyris corinnse, Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 117 (1876-80). 

 Cinnyris aspasire, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 68 (1884) [part.]. 

 Hermotimia corinna, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 42 (1906). 



An egg of the Duke- of- York-Island Sun-bird is of an oval form 



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