254 FEINGILLIDJI. 



Genus MELOPHUS, Swains. 



Meloplms melanicterus (Gmel.). 



(Plate XII. figs. 1 &4.) 



Melophus melanicterua, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xii. p. 568 (1888); 

 Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 265 (1890) ; id., ed. Hume, 

 Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 173 (1890) ; La Touche, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 38; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 2i86 (1909). 



Eggs of the Crested Elaok Bunting are of a broad blunt oval form 

 and have a moderate amount of gloss. The ground-colour is pale 

 greenish-white in some, pinkish-white in others, and they are 

 thickly speckled, streaked and mottled with dull reddish-brown 

 and underlying lavender-grey.: The markings are ever3'where 

 dense, but especially at the larger end of the egg, where they 

 coalesce so as to form a more or less irregular and ill-defined cap. 

 They measure from -7 to -9 in length, and from "6 to -69 in 

 breadth. 



2. Himalaya, 27th June (Nehrlcorn Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. Almora, Himalaya, 16th May. Hume CoU. & Crowley 



Bequest. 



15. Sikhim (/. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



2. Hansi, Punjab, Aug. Hume OoU. 



2. Jhansi, N. W. Provs., July (F. R. Hume Coll. 



Blewitt). 



6. Saugor, Central Provs., 25th Hume Coll. 

 July. 



3. Saugor, 28th July. Hume. Coll. 

 2. Saugor, 5th Aug. Hume CoU. 

 2. Saugor, 5th Aug. Hume Coll. 



1. Kuatun, Fohkein, China, 17th C. B. Kickett, Esq. [P.l. 

 May. 



4. Kuatun, 18th May. J. D. La Touche, Esq. [C], 



Genus PLECTROPHENAX, Stejneger. 



Plectrophenax nivalis (Linn.). 



Emberiza nivahs, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. p. 373, tab. xxxiii. 

 fig. ll,a-e (1845-54) ; Markham, Whaling Q-uise Baff. Bay, p. 285 

 (1876); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 125, pi. 15 (1884) ; id., Boas of 

 Brit. Birds, ^.2i7, pi. 57. &gs. 9 & 10 {1898). 



Plectrophanes nivalis, Baedeker, Bier Fur. Vog. tab. 8. fig. 1 <1855-68) ; 

 Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 184, pi. xlvi. fig. lii (1856) ; 

 Dresser, Birds Eur. iv. p. 261 (1873) ; Baird, Brewer ^ Ridgw. N. 

 Amer. Birds, i. p. 512 (1874) ; Feilden, Ibis, 1877, p. 404 ; id. in 

 Nares's Narr. Voy. Polar Sea, ii. p. 209 (1878) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1878, 

 p. 340; Bey, Eier Vog. Mitteleurop. p. 300, pi. 38. figs. 17-21 

 (1900) ; Dresser, Man. Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 374 (1902) ; Neizton, 

 Ootheca Wolleyana, pt. ii. p. 443 (1902). 



