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end, with light chestnut and lilac. They measure from -65 to •? in 

 length, and from -51 to -59 in breadth. 



2. Eastern Siberia. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Amur-land. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Amur-land, 10th May. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus CYANOPTILA, Elyth. 



Cyanoptila bella {A. Hay). 



Xanthopygia cyanomelsena, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 251 (1879) ; 



Nehrk. Kat. Eienamml. p. 26 (1899). 

 Niltava cyanomelsena, Seebohm, Birds Japan. Emp. p. 59 (1890). 

 Cyanoptila cyanomelsena, Tacz. Faune Orn. SibSr. Orient, p. 482 (1891). 

 Cyanoptila bella, Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 2-38 (1901). 



The eggs of the Japanese Blue Flycatcher are of an excessively 

 broad oval form and slightly glossy. They are of a plain cream- 

 colour. Five examples measure respectively ; '78 by '65 ; "79 by 

 ■64 ; -8 by -6 ; -8 by -63 ; -8 by -61. 



3. Japan (-H. Pryer), Seebohm Coll. 



2. Amur-land, 1st June. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus OCHROMELA, Blyth. 



Ochromela nigrirufa {Jerd.). 



(Plate VIII. fig. 9.) 



Siphia nf^rorufa, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 455 (1879) ; Legge, 



Birds Ceylon, p. 425 (1879). 

 Ochromela nigrirufa. Dates, Faima Brit. Ind., Birds, ii. p. 37 (1890) ; 



id. ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 14 (1890) ; Sharpie, 



Hand-l. iii. p. 238 (1901). 



The eggs of the Blaek-and-Orange Flycatcher are of an oval form, 

 and generally exhibit some small amount of gloss. They are greyish 

 white, speckled and mottled with dull reddish brown. The markings 

 are usually very dense at the large end, where, in most cases, they 

 form a confluent and well-defined cap. Two examples in the Col- 

 lection are of a pale stone-colour, mottled with a slightly darker 

 shade of the same. Seven specimens measure from -66 to '72 in 

 length, and from -53 to -66 in breadth. 



3. Nilghiri Hills, April. Hume Coll. 



2. Nilghiri Hills, 19th May. Hume Coll. 



1. Coonoor, Nilghiri Hills, 10th April Hume Coll. 



(H. Carter). 



1 Coonoor, 25th May. Hume Coll. 



