MusciciPniA. 263 



Collection is inseparable from the mottled type of egg of Aheonax 

 Z«<wo6ins described above. It measures -7 by -51. 



1. Eastern Siberia {Nehrkorn Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MUSCICAPULA, Blyth. 



Muscicapula superciliaris (Jerd.). 

 (Hate VII. fig. 19.) 



Muscicapula superciliaris, Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 204 (1879) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eiersaniml. p. 25 (1899) : Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 223 



(1901). 

 Cyornis superciliaris, Gates, Fauna Brit. Iml, Birds, ii. p. 17 (1890) ; 



id. ed. Hume, Nests S/- Egys Ind. Birds, 2ad ed. ii. p. 4 (1890). 



The eggs of the White-browed Blae Flycatcher are of a broad 

 oval form, and exhibit a considerable amount of gloss. At first 

 sight, they appear to be of one uniform colour, either fawn-coloured 

 or of a pale stone-colour, but when closely looked at, they will be 

 found to be mottled or speckled with a somewhat darker shade of 

 colour than the ground-colour itself. They measure from "59 to 

 •68 in length, and from "5 to '54 in breadth. 



2. Murri, N.W. Himalayas, 5th June Hume Coll. 



(C.H. T. Marshall). 



3. Kotgarh, Himalayas. Hume Coll. 

 2. Kotgarh, 3rd May. Hume Coll. 



2. Kashmir, May \W. E. Brooks: Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram Coll.). 



Muscicapula samarensis, Bourns S/- Worcester. 



Muscicapula samarensis. Bourns ^ Worcester, Oce. Papers Minn. Acad. 

 Nat.^c. i. p. 26 (1894) ; GrantSr Whitehead, Ibis, 1898, p. 237, pi. yi. 

 %. 6; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 224 (1901). 



The eggs of the Samar "White-browed Flycatcher in the Collection 

 are of an ordinary oval shape and slightly glossy. They are of a 

 bluish-green colour, speckled all over, but especially at the broad 

 end, with pale brown and lilac. They measure respectively : -75 

 by -55 ; -74 by -52. 



2. Paranos, Samar, Philippine Islands, J. Whitehead, Esq. [0.]. 

 17th June. 



Muscicapula hyperythra (Blyth). 



Muscicapula hyperythra, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 206 (1879) ; id. 

 Hand-l. iii. p. 224 (1901). 



Cyornis hyperythrua, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 15 (1890) ; 

 id. ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 2 (1890) ; Stuart 

 Baker, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Sac. ix. p. 123 (1894). 



