48 PHASIANID^. 



The eggs of the Blue-breasted, or Painted, Quail are broad ovals, 

 generally much pointed at one end, and they vary in colour from 

 pale buff to brownish olive, spotted with very minute dots of reddish 

 brown and purple. Soroe appear to be unspotted, but on close ex- 

 amination they wiU be found to be covered with extremely minute 

 specks. The ground-colour of one specimen is pale blue. They 

 measure from '95 to 1'05 in length, and from" -7 to "8 in breadth. 



4. Darjiling Terai, 15th Aug. Hume Coll. 



2. Cachar (J. R. Inglis). Hume Coll. 



2. Pegu, 14th July (E. W. Oates). Oatea Coll. 

 6. Klang; Malay Peninsula, 15th March. Hume Coll. 



6. Formosa, (Ii.S2oinhoe). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Formosa, 21st Oct. (P. A. Hoist). Seebohm Coll. 

 1. Formosa, 18th Aug. (P. A. H.). Seebohm Coll. 



Bxcalfactoria lineata {Scop.). 

 (Plate IV. fig. 2.) 



Bxcalfactoria australis, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. ii. p. 197 (1865) ; 



Campbell, Nests S/- Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 51 (1883) ; North, Nests ^ 



Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 291 (1889). 

 Excalfactoria chinensis, Sharps, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 350. 

 Excalfactoria lineata, Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 253 (1893) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 32 (1899). 



The eggs of the Island Painted Quail resemble those oi Ei chinensis 

 in texture, gloss, shape 'and size, but differ markedly from them in, 

 colour. They are of a light green, pale brown, stone-colour or 

 olive-buff, thickly spotted all over with blackish brown or dark 

 chocolate-brown, the spots being clear and distinct and of small 

 size. 



10. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



10. Labuan Island, N.W. Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



Genus BAMBUSICOLA, Gould. 



The eggs of the Bamboo-Partridges are of a broad oval, or, 

 occasionally, of an elliptical form. They possess a fair amount 

 of gloss. 



Bambusicola fytchei, Anders. 

 (Plate IV. fig. 8.) 



Bambusicola hopkinsoni, Godwin-Austen, J. A. 8. B. xliii. nt. 2, n. 172 



(1874). 

 Bambusicola fytchii, Hume ^ Marsh. Game Birds Ind. ii. p. 97 (1879) ; 



Grant, Cat. Birds B. M. xxii. p. 257 (1893) : Oates, Game Birds 



Ind. i. p. 210 (1898). 

 Bambusicola fytchei, Sharpe, Hand-l. i. p. 32 (1899). 



The eggs of Fytche's Bamboo-Partridge are of a rich cream- 

 colour, and measure from 1-4 to 1-55 in length, and from I'l to 

 1-15 in breadth. 



