34 TIMELIID^. 



1. Pegu, 2nd May (E. W. Oates). Hume Coll. 



1. Pegu, 29th June (£. W. O.). Hume Coll. 



1. Pegu, 29th June {E. W. O.). Crowley Bequest. 

 3. Pegu, 28th July {E. W. O.). Hume Coll. 



3. Kaukarit, Tenasserim, 11th July. Hume CoU. 



2. Thoungyin River, Tenasserim, Hume Coll. 



7th April.(C. r. Bingham). 

 ?. Thoungyin River, 12th April Hume Coll. 



(C.T.B.). 



Pellorneum palustre, Gould. 



(Plate III. fig. 12.) 



Pellorneum palustre, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 522 (1883) ; Oates^ 

 Fauna Brit. Jnd., Birds, i. p. 143 (1889); Stuart Baker, Journ. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. viii. p. 186 (1893) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eie^samml. 

 p. 63 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 30 (1903). 



Three eggs of the Marsh Spotted Babbler in the Collection are of 

 a regular oval form, and are somewhat glossy. The ground-colour 

 is white with a few underlying streaks and blotches of lavender, 

 somewhat thickly overlaid with fine reddish-brown spots and dots, 

 chiefly towards the larger end. 



3. Umrung Plateau, N. Cachar, E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. [C.]. 



12th June. 



Pellorneum ignotum, Hume. 



(Plate II. fig. 7.) 



Brymocataphus ignotus, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 556 (1883). 

 Pellorneum ignoturil, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. l44 (1889) ; 



Stuart Baker, Journ. Bomhay Nat. Hist. Soo. viii. p. 186 (1893) ; 



Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 30 (1903). 



The eggs of the Assam Babbler are either of a blunt oval or 

 elliptical shape, and are slightly glossy. In colour they are pink, 

 freckled all over with warm brownish red ; in some eggs the freckles 

 are more numerous on the larger end, forming a kind of cap. The 

 measurements of eleven specimens vary from -8 to '85 in length, 

 and from "59 to "62 in breadth. 



3. Margherita, Assam. E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. [0. 



3. Margherita, Assam, 20th May. E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. C. 



3. Margherita, Assam. E. 0. Stuart Baker, Esq. [C. 



2. Assam, 13th May. Crowley Bequest. 



Genus BERNIERIA, Bonap. 



Bernieria madagascariensis (Omel.). 



(P'late I. fig. 17.) 



Bernieria madagascariensis, Milne-Edwards ^ Grandidier, Hid. Nat. 

 Madag., Ois. p. 349 (1879) ; Cowan, Pros. B. Phys. Soc. Edm. vii. 



