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from white or pinkish-white to pinkish-grey, and they are elegantly 

 marked all over with clouds and smears of underlying lavender- 

 grey, and specks, spots, hieroglyphics, and fine hair-lines of purplish- 

 hrown or black, similar to those found on the eggs of ipany of the 

 Buntings. Specimens measure from '65 to -76 in length, and from 

 ■49 to -53 in breadth. 



18. Labuan I., Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [0.]. 



2. Labuan I. (Sir H. Low : Tristram Crowlev Bequest. 

 Coll.). ^ 



1 . Labuan I. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Labuan L, 27th May (JiPTAiieAeaf^). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus CHALCOPARIA, Cab. 



Chalcoparia phoenicotis (Temm.). 

 (Plate I. fig. 11.) 



Anthreptes phoenicotis, Shelley, Mon. Ned. p. 325 (1876-80). 

 Anthotnreptes phoenicotis, Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 121 (1884). 

 Obalcoparia phoenicotis, Oaiei, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 373 



(1890) ; id., ed. Hume, Nesfs <§• ^ffffs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 269 (1890) ; 



Sharpe, Sand-l. v. p. 63 (1906). 



The eggs of the Ruby-cheeked Sun-bird are of a blunt oval shape 

 and without gloss. They are dull white or pale cream-colour, very 

 densel}' mottled all over with lilac-grey, to such an extent in some 

 specimens that very little of the ground-colour is visible. In 

 some eggs there is a tendency for the markings to form a zone 

 round the broad end. Seven examples measure from -OS to "7 in 

 length, and from -44 to "49 in breadth. 



2. Pegu, 15th March (E. W. Oates). Gates Coll. 



1. Pegu, 6th July (E. W. O.). Hume Coll. 



2. Pegu, Aug. {E. W. O.). Hume Coll. 



2. Pegu, 27th Aug. {E. W. O.). Crowley Bequest. 



Family MELlPHAGIDiE. 



Genus MELITHRBPTES, Vieill. 



Melithreptes atricapillus (Lath.). 



Melithreptus lunulatus, GouM., Ilandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 568 (1865) ; 

 Gadow, Cat. Birds B. M. ix. p. 204 (1884) ; North, Nests Sr Eggs 

 Austr. Birds, p. 227 (1889) ; Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 80 (1899) ; 

 Campbell, Nests ^ Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 359, pi. 13 (1901). 



Melithreptus chloropsis, Gould, Ilandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 570 (1865). 



Melithreptes atricapillus, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 64 (1906). 



The eggs of the Lunulated Honey- eater are of a blunt oval shape 



