no MOIACILUD^. 



and clouded all over with, greyish-brown ; one of the eggs has a 

 dark hair-line at the larger end. 



2. Antipodes I., New Zealand. Lt. Kennett Dixon, R.N. [P.]. 



Genus OREOCORYS, Sharpe. 



* 

 Oreocorys sylvanus (Hodgs.), 



(Plate VI. figs. 2 & 3.) 



Oreocorys sylvanus, 8harpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 622 (1885) ; Dates, 

 Fauna Brit. ' Ind., Birds, ii. p. 313 (1890) ; id., ed. Hmne, Nests Sf 

 Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 217 (1890) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 152 (1906;. 



The eggs of the Upland Pipit are of a broad oval shape and moderately 

 glossy. They are purplish- white, profusely speckled and spotted with 

 reddish- or purplish-brown and underlying dark purplish-grey or 

 lavender. The markings, though dense everywhere, are very 

 crowded together at the broad end and form a confluent cap or 

 zone. Specimens measure from -82 to '98 in length, and from -63 

 to -72 in breadth. 



9. Kotgarh, Himalayas [A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 



1. Kotgarh, 2ad April (A. O. S.). Hume Coll. . 



1. Kotgarh, 4th May (A. O.H.). Hume Coll. 



3. Kotgarh, 6th May (A. O. H.). Hume Coll. 

 8. Kotgarh, 15th May [A. O. S.). Hume Coll. 



1. Kotgarh, 26lh May U- O-'J?-)- Hume Coll. 



2. Kotgarh, 29th May {A. O. S.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Kotgarh, 3rd June {A. O. II.). Hume Coll. 



4. Kotgarh, 4th June (A. O. II.). Hume Coll. 



1. Kotgarh, 16th May (A. 0. H. : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



Genus MACRONYX, Swains. 



Macronyx capensis, Linn. 



(Plate VI. figs. 1 & 4.), 



Macronyx capensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard, Birds S. Africa, p. 680 (1875-84) ; ' 

 Bidler, Feilden (§• Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 335 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 X. p. 623 (1885) ; Nehrk. Kat. Mersamml. p. 93 (1899) ; Stark, 

 Faun. S. Afr., Birds, i. p. 238 (1900) ; S/ieUey, Birds Afr. iii. p. 2 

 (1902) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 163 (1906). 



The eggs of the Cape Long-clawed Pipit are of a very blunt oval 

 shape and slightly glossy. The eggs of one clutch in the Collection 

 are cream-colour, profusely mottled and streaked all over with 

 lilac-red and pale lavender. Those of two other clutches are dull 

 white, spotted and blotched with pale brown and underlying dull 

 purple. They measure from "92 to 1-0 in length, and from -68 to 

 •72 in breadth. 



2. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.] 



3. Natal. T. Ayrea, Esq. [0/]. 



2. Ladysmith, Natal, Nov. Capt. Savile G. Keid [P.]. 



9. TrB,n&vaa.l (T. Ayres : TristramCoU.). Crowley Bequest. 



2. Johannesburg, Transvaal, Dec. C. 0. Roberts, Esq. [P.]. 



