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The eggs of the Javan Elack-capped Babbler are of a regular oval 

 shape, and have a small amount of gloss. The colour is pale piuk, 

 clouded with a darker shade of pink and very light chestnut. Over- 

 lying these there are also hieroglyphic-like scrawls and spots of 

 dark reddish brown irregularly distributed, and a few similar under- 

 lying markings of purplish grey. They .measure respectively : 

 •85 by -62 ; -87 by -62 ; -90 by -65. 



1. Java, 24th April. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Java, 25th May. Crowley Bequest, 



Drymocataphus nigricapitatus (Eyton). 



Drymocataphus nigricapitatus, Shai-pe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 554 

 (1883) ; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 145 (1889) ; id. ed. 

 Hume, Nests Sr Eggs Ind. Birds, i. p. 102 (1889) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 

 iv. p. 36 (1903). 



The eggs of the Malayan Black-capped Babbler in the Collection 

 are of an elliptical form and exhibit a considerable amount of gloss. 

 The ground, of which very little is visible, is of a creamy-white 

 colour, and this is thickly freckled and mottled with brown and 

 underlying pale purple, the two colours being of about equal extent. 

 They measure respectively: -82 by "61 ; "81 by •62. 



2. Klang, Malay Peninsula, 3rd April Hume Coll. 

 ( W. Davison). 



Drymocataplms capistratoides {StricM.). 



(Plate II. fig. 4.) 



Drymocataphus capistratoides, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 555 

 (1883) ; id. Hand-l. iv. p. 36 (1903). 



Two eggs of the Bornean Black-capped "Warbler are of an elliptical 

 form and glossy. The ground-colour is light grey, almost entirely 

 covered with freckles and streaks of brown and pale purple, these 

 forming a more or less distinct cap at one end. They measure 

 respectively : •Q by ^64 ; ^86 by •Gl. 



2. Borneo {Sir Hugh Loto). Dr. Bowdler Sharpe [P.]. 



Drymocataphus tickelli (Blyth). 



Drymocataphus tickelli, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 557 (1883) ; 

 Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 146 (1889) ; Stucert Baker, 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. viii. p. 189 (1898) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 

 iv. p. 37 (1903). 



Eggs of Tickell's Babbler in the Collection resemble those of 

 B. assamensis in shape and markings, but the ground-colour is 

 greenish grey, instead of pale bluish. They measure from -85 to -87 

 in length, and from -61 to -64 in breadth. 



3. Hungrum, N. Cachar, 14th June. E. C. Stuart Baker,. Esq. [C.]. 



