318 IYCN0N0TrDJ3. 



Of the two eggs of Davison's Stripe-throated Bulbul in the 

 Collection, one is blotched all over with pale chestnut and lilac, and 

 tone is speckled and spotted with reddish brown and lavender. 

 They measure respectively : '9 by '65 ; "82 by '61. 



1. Pegu, 1st June {E. W. Gates). Gates Coll. 



1. Pegu, 6th June [E. W. O.). Crowley Bectuest. 



Pycnonotus barbatus {Desf.). 



1x08 obscurus, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. pi. 76. fig. 15 (1855-63). 



Ixua barbatus, Loche, Expl. AlgSrie, Ois. i. p. 288 (1867). 



Pycnonotus barbatus. Dresser, Birds Eur. iii. p. 353 (1875) ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 146 (1881) ; Nehrl<. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 44 



(1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 331 (1901). 



The eggs of the White-vented Bulbul appear to comprise all the 

 types of coloration of the eggs of Molpastes fuscus. They measure 

 from -89 to '98 in length, and from '68 to '75 in breadth. 



2. Tunis. L. Fraser, Esq. [0.]. 



2. Algeria (Loche). Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



1. Algeria, May (Loche: Tristram Crowley Bequest. 



Coll.). 



2. Algeria, 24tli June (Loche : Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 



Pycnonotus arsinoe (Hempr. Sf Ehr.). 



Pycnonotus arsinoe, Heuglin, Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 396, taf. xliii. fig. 18 

 (1878) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 148 (1881) ; id. Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 17 ; id. Hand-l. iii. p. 331 (1901). 



One egg of Hemprioh's Bulbul in the Collection is white, densely 

 speckled with deep purplish red and lavender, while the other two 

 are speckled with reddish brown. They measure respectively : 

 ■8 by -64 ; -87 by -64; -86 by -64. 



1. Aden. 24th April. Col. J. W. Yerbury [P.]. 



2. Harrar, S. Abyssinia. - M. P. Zaphiro [C.]. 



Pycnonotus sinensis (Gm.). 



Ixus .sinensis, Sinnhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 289. 



Pj'cnonotus sinensis, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vi. p. 149 (1881) ; La 



Touche, Ibis, 1808, p. 365 ; Nehrh. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 44 (1899) ■ 



Sharpe, Hand-l. iii. p. 331 (1901). 



All the varied types of Bulbuls' eggs .are represented in the 

 large series of eggs of the "White-naped Bulbul in the Collection. 

 Thoy measure from -8 to -92 in length, and from -58 to -7 in 

 breadth. 



