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the broad end. Two examples measure respectively : -9 by '62 ; 

 •9 by -65. 



2. Mt. Kina Balu, Borneo, ISth March Orowley Bequest. 

 (J. Whitehead), 



Genus CULICICAPA, SwinJi. 



Culicicapa ceylonensis (Swains.). 



(Plate IX. flg. 6.) 



Culicicapa ceylonensis, Sharps, Cat. Birds B. M. It. p. 369 (1879) ; id. 

 Ibis, 1889, p. 202; Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 410 (1879); Oates ed. 

 Hume, Nests 8; Eggs Ind. Birds, ii. p. 16 (1890) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. 

 p. 268 (1901). 



The eggs of the Grey-headed Plycatcher are of a broad oval form 

 and moderately glossy. They are cream-coloured, blotched and 

 clouded with pale brown and dark lavender-grey, densely over the 

 larger half of the egg where the markings assume the form of a 

 broad and more or less well-defined zone, and sparingly elsewhere. 

 On the whole, they resemble the common type of egg of the Rhipi- 

 dura group. They measure from -58 to -OS in length, and from "46 

 to "5 in breadth. 



2. Sikhim, 10th June (J. Oammie). Hume Coll. 



7. Nilghiri Hills. Hume Coll. 



2. Kotagherry, Nilghiri Hills, 80th Hume Coll. 



April {Miss CocMmrii). 

 2. Ootacamund, 1st May. Hume Coll. 



2. Mount Kina Balu, Borneo, 29th Crowley Bequest. 



April (J. Whitehead : with an 



egg of Hierococcyx fugax). 



Genus MYIAGEA, Vig. 4f Horsf. 

 Myiagra nitida, Oould. 



Myiagra nitida, Gould, Handb. Birds Austr. i. p. 255 (1865) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 375 (1879) ; North, Nests 8f Eggs Austr: Birds, 

 p. 94' (18S9) ; Campbell, Nests §• Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 121, pi. 9 

 (1901) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 268 (1901). 



The eggs of the Satin Elycatcher are of an ordinary oval shape 

 and slightly glossy. Two specimens in the Collection are white, 

 spotted and blotched with umber-brown and purplish grey in a well- 

 defined zone round the large end, A third specimen is also white, 

 but the zone is barely indicated, the markings being pale brown and 

 lavender and distributed more or less over the whole shell. Three 

 examples measure respectively : '83 by '6 ; -8 by -6 ; -73 by "57. 



2. Tasmania (E. D. Atkinson). Crowley Bequest. 



1. Ta.smania \e. D. A.). Orowley Bequest. 



