302 PICNONOIIDiE, 



Family PYCNONOTID^. 



Genus ^GITHINA, Vieill. 



^githina tiphia (lAnn.). 

 (Plate X, fig. 2.) 



lora typhia, Legge, Birds Ceylon, p. 490 (1880). 



.(Egithina tiphia, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 7 (1881) ; Oates, Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 230 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests Sr Eggs 

 Ind. Birds, i. p. 151 (1889) ; Nehrh. Eat. Eiersamml. p. 42 (1899) ; 

 Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 306 (1901). 



The eggs of the Common lora are of a broad oval form, and while 

 some exhibit a small amount of gloss, others are without a trace 

 of it. They are white, occasionally tinged with pink, and are 

 streaked with lavender, pale brown, lilac-red, or pinkish-brown. 

 The streaks are generally broad and confluent round the broad end 

 of the egg, and form a well-marked zone or, in some cases, a cap. 

 A few specimens are merely spotted with grey. They measure 

 from -63 to -TB in length, and from -51 to -57 in breadth. 



ffigithina viridis {Bp.). 



lora scapulai'is, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 339. 



^githina viridis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 11 (1881) ; id. Hand-l. 

 iii. p. 806 (1901). 



The eggs of the Black-winged lora in the Collection are very 

 similar to those of ^. tiphia*, but in one of the specimens the 



* Dr. Sharps (P. Z. S. 1879, p. 339) appears to have inadvertently described 

 the egg of some other bird as that of this species. 



