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latter colour are quite free from markings, the great majority are 

 some thinly, some thickly, speckled and finely freckled with pale 

 greyish, greenish or purplish neutral tint. The markings, except 

 an occasional black hair-line, are, in at least two-thirds of the eggs, 

 BO minute that, looked at from a distance of a couple of feet, the 

 eggs appear to he of one uniform grey, some darker, some lighter, 

 some with a sepia tinge, some with a slight brown tinge, some with 

 the faintest possible purple shade, some greenish ; but a grey stoue- 

 colour is the prevailing tint of a large body of eggs, amongst which 

 perhaps one in twenty or thirty is pure white with only a few 

 brown specks scattered here and there, and a good many, perhaps 

 one in ten, are a very pale grey, which look white amongst the 

 darker varieties, though when placed beside a white egg they are 

 distinctly grey."' They measure from -68 to -78 in length, and 

 from -52 to '58 in breadth. 



13. 

 25. 

 21. 



47. 

 27. 



6. 



7. 



1. 



3. 



Pegu, Tune {K W. Oates). 

 Pegu, July {E. W. 0.). 

 Pegu, Aug. {E. W. O.). 

 Pegu, .Tune I^E. IV. 0.). 

 Pegu, July {E. W. O.). 

 Pegu, Aug, {E. W. O.). 

 Pegu, Sept. {E. W. O). 

 Pegu, 24th Aug. (E. W. 0.). 

 Thatone Creek, Tenasserim, 4th 



Oct. {Capt. JR. C. Beavan; 



Tristram Coll!). 

 Thatone Creek, 4th Oct. {R. C. 



£.: Tristram Coll.). 

 Siam, June [L.Layard: Tristram 



Coll.). 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Oates Coll. 

 Oates Coll. 

 Oates Coll. 

 Oatea Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Crowley Bequest. 

 Crowley Bequest. 



Genus PLOCETJS, Cuvier. 

 Ploceus bays, Blyth. 



Ploceus philippinus, Layard, A. M. N. H. 2ud ser. xiii. p. 2.57 (1854) ; 



Legge, Birds Ceylon, ^.QAi{\STd). .. ,„^ ,,„,„ ., , 



Ploceus baya, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, u. P- l'^ (1890) ; td.,ed 



m,me, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 114 1890); ^'^^rPf'^^t- 



Birds B. M. xiii. p. 488 (1890); id., Band-l. v. p. 480(1909); 



Neh-k. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 340 (1910). 

 The e'^gs of the Baya or Common Indian Weaver-Finch are long 

 ovals, pointed at the smaller end. They have a slight gloss and 

 are plain white. They measure from -12 to -9 m length, and from 

 •52 to -62 in breadth. 



2. 

 9 



Saharunpur, N.W. Provinces, 



India, 29th June. 

 Agra, 30th July. 

 Agra, 5th Aug. 

 Agra, ]6th .^ug. 

 Agra, 23rd Aug. 

 Agra, 4th Sept. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Cull. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



