446 mcEUEiBJs. 



Genus BHRINGA, Hodgson. 



Bhringa remifer ( Temm.). 



(Plate XX. fig. 21.) 



Bhringa remifer, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 257 (1877) ; Oates, 

 Faun. Brit, hid., Birds, i. p. S2i (1889) ; Oates, ed. Hume, Nests 8f 

 Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 216 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 20 

 (1899), p. 355 (1910) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 565 (1909). 



Three eggs of the Lesser Racket- tailed Drongo are of a regular 

 ovul form aad fairly glossy. The ground is of a rich salmon-pink 

 colour. Two specimens are rather thickly spotted and blotched 

 with chestnut and lavender; the third is smeared with dull 

 chestnut and purplish-grey. In all the markings are chiefly 

 distributed over the broad end of the shell and are more or less 

 confluent. They measure respectively : 1-07 by -73 ; 1-07 by -75 ; 

 •97 by -72. 



2. Dai-jiling, Sikhim, loth May Hume Coll. 



(J. Gaimnie). 

 1. Darjiliug, 20th May (/. <?.). Hume Coll. 



Genus LISSEMURUS, Gloger. 

 Dissemums paradiseus {Linn.). 



Dissemurus paradiseus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 258 (1877) ; 

 Legqe, Bird<i Ceylon, p. 399 (1879); Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 i. p.' 325 (1889) ; Oates, ed. Hume, Nests i^ Ego-! Ind. Birds, i. p. 217 

 (1889); Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 21 (1899), p. 355 (1910); 

 Osmaston, J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xvii. p. 157 (1906) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 566 (1909). 



The eggs of the Larger Racket-tailed Drongo are usually of a 

 blunt oval form, but a few are somewhat pointed. They have a 

 fair amount of gloss. The specimens are of three types. In one, 

 the ground is white, speckled, spotted, and sometimes blotched 

 with darker and paler shades of inky-purple, the markings being 

 most numerous at the larger end. .In the second type, the ground 

 is pinkish-white, spotted, blotched, and clouded with two or more 

 shades of chestnut and with pale lilac. In the third type, which 

 is represented by one example only, the ground is pale salmon-pink, 

 blotched all over with lavender and very pale rufous. The esgs 

 measure from 1-05 to 1'2 in length, and from -75 to "85 in breadth. 



1. Darjiliug, Sikhim, May" (T. C. Hume Coll. 

 jerdon). 



1. Darjiling, 14th May. Hume Coll. 



2. Mysore, 10th April {J. Macpher- Hume Coll. 



s(m). 



