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CAMPOPHAGID^. 



The eggs of the Black-headed Cuckoo-Shrike an extremely short, 

 broad ovals, and are fairly glossy. They are pale green or greenish 

 white, very densely blotched and streaked with brown and under- 

 lying lavender. On some specimens, little of the ground is visible ; 

 pn others, about one-third of its extent can be seen. Specimens 

 measure from -8 to -86 in length, and from -63 to -66 in breadth. 



1. Calcutta. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Calcutta, 12th June. Hume Coll. 

 2. Saugor, Central Provinces, 24th July Hume Coll. 



(J^. B. Blewitt). 



2. Mysore, 14th May (7. ilfac^A«rso«), Hume Coll. 



Lalage tricolor. Swains. 



Campephaga humeralis, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxx. fig. 9, a, h 

 (1845-54); Gould, Sandb. Birds Austr. i. p. 204 (.1865). 



Lalaffe tricolor, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. iv. p. 92 (1879) ; North, Nests 

 Si' Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 78 (1889) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 23 

 (1899) ; Campbell, Nests Sr Eggs Austr. Birds, i. p. 103, pi. 7 (1901) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 303 (1901). 



The eggs of the White-shouldered Cuckoo-Shrike are of a regular 

 oval form and slightly glossy. They are of a pale green colour, 

 densely streaked, blotched and clouded with umber-brown or chest- 

 nut-brown and lavender. They measure from "78 to '87 in length, 

 and from -6 to -65 in breadth. 



1. Australia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



3. Da-wson River, Queensland, 29th Crowley Bequest. 



Oct. {NortJi Coll.). 



1. New South Wales. Gould Coll. 



2. Dobroyde, N. S. W., Oct. {E. P. Crowley Bequest. 



Bamsag). 



2. Liverpool, N.S.W., 30th Oct. Crowley Bequest. 



North Coll.). 



2. Murray R., N.S.W., Dec. W. KadclifEe Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 



1. Gippsland, Victoria. r.A.Pliilbriok,E3q.,K.O.[P.]. 

 Victoria. Govt, of Victoria [P.]. 



2. West Australia. Gould Coll. 



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Lalage terat (Bodd.). 



Lalage terat, Shaipe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 336 ; id. Cat. Birds B. M. iv. 



p. 95 (1879) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 23 (1899). 

 Campophaga terat, Oates Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 495 (1889) ; id. ed. 



Hume, Nests Sf Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 348 (1889). 



The eggs of the Pied Cuckoo-Shrike caunot be separated from 

 those of L. syhesi. They measure from -85 to ■87 in length, and 

 from -61 to -64 in breadth. 



2. Klang, Malay Peninsula, Aug. Hume Coll. 

 {W. Davison). 



