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Eggs of the Black-browed Tree-Pie are of an oval shape and 

 very slightly glossy. They are very Shrike-like in appearance. 

 The ground is cream-colour, sometimes tinged with greenish, and 

 spotted and blotched with yellowish- or reddish-umber-brown and 

 lilac-gre)', the markings being mostly concentrated in a heavy ring 

 or cap round the larger end. Six eggs vary in length from 1'06 to 

 1-16, and in breadth from -78 to -86. ' 



Mr. Stuart Baker says that eggs of this species can nearly all bo 

 matched with eggs of D. rufa or D. himalayensis, but are ou the 

 whole more richly marked. 



.3. Margherita, Assam, 31st May (E. 



C. S. B.). 

 3. Dibiughur, Assam, 17th May (E. 



C. S. B.). 



E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. [C.]. 

 E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. [r.]. 



Dendrocitta Mmalayensis {Blyth). 



Dendrocitta himalayensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iii. p. 79 (1877) ; 

 Oates, Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 32 (1889) ; Oates, ed. Hume, 

 Nests §• Effffs Ind. Birds, i. p. 23 (1889) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 607 

 (1909) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 360 (1910). 



Eggs of the Himalayan Tree-Pie resemble those of D. rufa and 

 D. frontalis; 



1. [N.W. Provinces, India] {Nehrkorn 

 Coll.). 



1. Mussoorie, N.W. Provinces [T. 



Hutton). 



2. Sikhim (J. Gammie). 



2. Sikhim, 7th May (J. G.). 



3. Darjiling. 

 6. Darjiling (/. G.). 



5. Darjiling (J. G.). 



6. Darjiling (/. (?.). 

 1. Darjiling (/. G.). 

 3. Native Sikhim, June (L. Man- 



delli). 



3. Mungphoo, Darjiling, 15th May. 



4. Mungphoo. 

 4. Mungphoo. 

 4. Mungphoo. 

 4. Mungphoo. 

 3. Mungphoo. 

 3. Mungphoo. 

 3. Mungphoo. 



1. Dibrughur, Assam, 15th June 



{J. M. Cripps). 

 3. North Oachar Hills, 14th May. 



2. North Cachar Hills, 26th May. V 



Crowley Bequest. 



Hume Coll. 



Hume Ooll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Crowley Bequest. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 

 Hume Coll. 



W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. 



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RadclifTe Saunders, Esq. 



