'43 



Khandesh, 16th Au^ Crowley Bequest. 



Nilghiri Hills, April. Hume Coll. 



Nilghiri Hills, 3rd April. Hume Coll. 



Curzon, Nilghiri HiUs, 23rd April. Hume Coll. 



Curzon, 24th April. Hume Coll. 



Curzon, 3rd May. Hume Coll. 



Curzon, 4th May. Hume Coll. 



Curzon, 7th May. Hume Coll. 



Curzon, 9th May. Hume Coll. 



Curzon, 10th May. Hume Coll. 



Kodanand, Nilghiri Hills, 21st Jan. Hume Coll. 



Alcippe phayrei, Blyth. 

 (Plate II. fig. 20.) 



Alcippe phayrti, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. -g. 623 (1883) ; Oates, 

 Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 158 (1889) ; id. ed. Hume, Nests 8f 

 Bffffs In-d. Birds, i. p. 108 (1889). 



Alcippe phayrei, Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 44 (1903). 



The three clutches of eggs of the Burmese Babbler are fairly 

 uniform in colouring and resemble the eggs of A. phmocephala, but 

 the ground is more richly coloured and the lighter markings more 

 suffused than in the eggs of that species. They measure from 

 •68 to "76 in length, and from "53 to -B in breadth, 



S. Sinzaway, Tenasserim, 30th March Hume Coll. 



(C. T. Bingham). 

 3. Thotingyin Kiver, Tenasserim, Hume Coll. 



23rd Feb. (C. T. B.). 

 3. Nwalabo, Tavoy, 9th April Hume Coll. 



(J. Darling). 



Alcippe hueti, David. 



Alcippe hueti, La Towihe, Ibis, 1899, p. 185 ; Sharpe, Hand-l. iv. p. 43 

 (1903). 



The four eggs of Huet's Babbler are of a broad oval form, very 

 slightly glossy. On a ground of pale pinkish white, they have 

 a few underlying markings of lavender, nearly all at the larger end, 

 overlaid with more numerous spots and blotches of purplish 

 carmine, interspersed with darker lines and edgings of the same 

 colour. These markings occur all over the egg, but somewhat 

 sparingly towards the smaller end. The eggs, which are very 

 handsome, measure "75 to -8 in length, by '55 to '6 in breadth. 



4. Kuatun, Fohkien, China, 6th May C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 

 (J. D. La Touche). 



