UEOCISSA. 



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Eggs of the lled-billed Blue Magpie are of a regular oval shape, 

 and almost devoid of gloss. The ground is pale buff or pale cream- 

 colour, marked all over the shell, but especially at the larger end, 

 with small spots and dots of umber-brown or reddish-brown and 

 underlying lilac-grey ; there are also a few small blotches of the 

 latter colour, mostly about the larger end. They vary in length 

 from 1-22 to 1-35, and in breadth from -92 to -97. 



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Mussoorie ( T. Hutton). 



Myawadi, Thoungyeen, Tenas- 

 serim, 19th March ( C. T. Bing- 

 ham). 



Meplay Biver, Tenasserim, 5th 

 March ( a T. B.\ 



Meplay Kiver, Uth April (C. T. 

 B.). 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume OoU. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



TJrocissa erythrorhyncha (Gmel.). 



Urocissa erythrorhyncha, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 71 (1877) ; 

 id., Hand-l. v. p. 606 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 360 (1910). 

 Urocissa sinensis, David Sr Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 375 (1877). 



Eggs of the Chinese Eed-billed Blue Magpie resemble those of 

 U. occipitalis described above, but vary much in the colour of 

 the ground and markings ; the former may be greenish-white, 

 pale olive, or olive-brown, and the latter vary from very small 

 close-set spots to rather large scattered spots of umber-brown and 

 lilac-grey. 



Urocissa flavirostris (Blyth). 



Urocissa flavirostris. Cock ^- Marshall, Str. F. i. p. 357 (1873) ; Hume ^ 

 Marshall, Lahore to Tark. p. 242 (1873) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 iii. p. 72 (1877); Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 27 (1889) ; 

 Oates, ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 16 (1889) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. v. p. 606 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 360 (1910). 



Eggs of the Yellow-billed Blue Magpie do not differ from those 

 of U. occipitalis. One egg with a pale greyish-olive ground has 

 almost the whole of the markings concentrated in a dense zone 

 round the larger end ; another has the markings mostly at the 

 smaller end. 



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