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respectively: 1-43 by 1-2; 1-37 by 1-2; 1-51 by 1-17 ; 1-45 by 

 1"15. Two others are of a pointed oval shape, and measure 1'5 by 

 1"17; 1"4 by 1-12 respectively. 



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2. Sariba Island, New Guinea, 11th Oct. C. A. Barnard, Esq. 

 2. Sariba Island, 20th Oct. 0. A. Barnard, Esq. 



2. Aru Islands (Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus HALCYON, Swains. 



The eggs of the Kingfishers of this genus are very rounded and 

 some are perfectly spherical. When fresh, they are extremely 

 glossy. 



Halcyon coromandns {Lath.). 



Halcyon coromandas, Sharpe, Mon. Alcedinidce, p. 155 (1870) ; id. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 831 ; id. Cat. Birds B. M. xvii. p. 217 (1892) ; idi Hand-l. 



ii. p. 56 (1900) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 161 (1899J. 

 CaUialcyon lilacina, Blmif. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p, 134 (1895). 



Five eggs of the Ruddy Kingfisher measure i-2 in length, and ' 

 from I'l to 1'2 in breadth. 



5. Labuan, Borneo. Sir Hugh Low [C.]. 



Halcyon smyrnensis (Linn.). 



Halcyon smyrnensis, Layard, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd ser. xii. p. 172 

 (1853); Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 48; Tristram, Ibis, 1866, p. 86; 

 Sharpe, Mon. Alcedinidcs, p. 161 ; Dresser, Birds Eur. y. p. 133 

 (1875) ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 298 (1878) ; Oates ed. Hume, Nests 

 \ Eggs Ind. Birds, iii. p. 15 (1890) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xvii. 

 p. 222 (1893) ; La Touche, Ihis, 1892, p. 479 ; Blanf. Faun. Brit. 

 Ind., Birds, iii. p. 132 (1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 56 (1900). 



The eggs of the "White-breasted Kingfisher measure from 1 to 1-25 

 in length^and from 0-9 to 1-05 in breadth. 



1. Palestine, 23rd May {H. B. Tris- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



tram). 



2. Sea of Oalilee, 28th April (H. B. T.). Crov>-ley Bequest. 

 4. Sind \j. H. Gould). Gould Coll. 



4. Hansi, Punjab (^.5/etoj«). Hume Coll. 



4. Hansi, 12th May ( W. B.). Hume Coll. 



3. Hansi, 24th May ( W. B.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Hansi, 27th May ( W. B.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Hansi, 2nd June ( W. B.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Hansi, 5th June ( W. B.). Hume Coll. 



6. Hansi, 7th June {W. B.). Hume Coll. 



2. Hansi, 15th June (TT. ^.). Hume Coll. 



3. Hansi, 28th June ( TV. B.), Hume Coll. 

 3. Sambhur, 27th June (iJ. M. Adam). Hume Coll. 

 3. Meerut, N.W. Provs., 9th May. Hume Coll. 



3. Saharunpur, 25th April ((?, F. L. Hume Coll. 



Marshall). 

 1. Saharunpur, 9th May ((?. F. L. M.). Hume Coll. 



4, Delhi, 5th June (C. T. Bingham). Hume CoU. 



