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shape and moderately glossy. The ground-colour varies from white 

 to pale greyish piuk, and the eggs are marked, chiefly at the broad 

 end, with spots, cloudy blotches, and scrawls of umber-brown and 

 deep grey. Three examples measure respectively : -95 by -69 ; 

 •93 by -67; 1-1 by -68. 



3. S. Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



Andropadus liavescens, HaHl. 



(Plate X. fig. 14.) 



Andi-opadiis flavescens, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 112 (1881); 

 Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 345 ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersmnml. p. 43 (1899; ; 

 Slmrpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 324 (1901). 



An egg of the Eastern Toothed-billed Bulbul in the Collection is 

 of a regular oval shape and highly glossy. It is greyish white ia 

 colour, densely freckled all over with pale brown and lavender. It 

 measures '89 by -61. 



1. Zanzibar. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MOLPASTES, Eume. 



Molpastes fuscus {P. L. S. Mull.). 



(Plate X. figs. 15, 16 & 17.) 



Pycnonotus hsemorrhous, Layard, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xiii. p. 125 

 (1854) ; Legqe, Birds Ceylon, p. 482 (1879) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. vi. p. 124 (1881) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 43 (1899). 



Pycnonotus pygteus, Beaoan, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 376. 



Molpastes hsemorrhous, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 268 (1889) ; 

 id. ed. Hume, Nests ^ Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 169 (1889). 



Molpastes fuscus (P. L. S. MiilL), Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 328 (1901). 



The eggs of the Madras Eed-vented Bulbul are of an oval form, 

 sometimes considerably pointed at one end, at others blunt and 

 rounded. They have a considerable amount of gloss. 



Few eggs vary so much in coloration as do the eggs of this Bulbul. 

 Mr. Hume has described them well and I cannot do better than 

 reproduce his notes : — " The ground is universally pinkish or reddish 

 white (in old eggs which have been kept a long time a sort of duU 

 Prenoh white) of which more or less is seen according to the extent 

 of the markings. These markings take almost every conceivable 

 form, defined and undefined — specks, spots, blotches, streaks, smudges, 

 and clouds ; their combinations are as varied as their colours, which 

 embrace every shade of red, brownish, and purplish red. As a rule, 

 besides the primary markings, feeble secondary markings of pale 

 inky purple are exhibited, often only perceptible when the egg is 

 closely examined, sometimes so numerous as to give the ground- 

 colour of the egg a universal purple tint. In about half the eggs 

 there is a tendency to exhibit, more or less, an irregular zone or 



