48 TIMElIID-a!. 



The eggs of the Allied Tir-Babbler are of a broad oval form, glossy 

 white, with a few indistinct scattered dots and splashes of very pale 

 red. They measure -6 to -63 in length, and -48 to -5 in breadth. 



4, Margherita, Assam, 24th July. E. 0. Stuart Baker, Esq. [0.]. 



Genus STACHYEHIDOPSIS, Sharpe. 



Stachyrhidopsis ruflceps {Blyth). 



Stachyridopsis ruficeps, STiaiye, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 598 ; La Touclie, 

 ibis, 1899, p. 186 ; Nehrk. Kat. Eievsamnd. p. 64 (1899) ; Sharpe, 

 Hand-l. iv. p. 50 (1903). 



Stachyrhidopsis ruficeps, Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 164 (1889) ; 

 id. ed. Hume, Nests 8f Eggs Ind. Birds,i. p. 112 (1889). 



The eggs of the Eed-headed Tit-Babbler are of an oval shape, and 

 they have only a small amount of gloss. The ground is white, and 

 this is sparingly marked with specks and small blotches of pale rusty- 

 red, and underlying pale purple, these being in some cases very 

 faint, causing the eggs to appear pure white. The markings 

 generally form a zone or imperfect cap at the larger end. The eggs 

 measure from '66 to "7 in length, and from '5 to 'oS in breadth. 



2. Mongrphoo, Darjiling (J. Gammie). Hume Coll. 



2. Mongphoo, 18th April [J. G.). Hume Coll. 



1. Darjilmg. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Darjiling, 27th May. Crowley Bequest. 



1. Dar-jiliug, 2nd June. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Dariiling, 6th June. Crowley Bequest. 

 2. Daijiling, 12th July. Hume 'Coll. 



6. Kuatun, Eohkien, China C. B. Rickett, Esq. [P.]. 



(/. D. La Touche), 



, StachyrMdopsis ruflfrons {Eume). 



(Plate III. flgs. 6 & 8.) 



Stachyris rufifrons, Hume, Str. F. 1873, p. 479 ; id. 1875, p. 117 ; id. 



1876, pp. 274, 501 ; id. 1877, vol. i. p. 265 ; id. 1879, p. 95. 

 Stachyridopsis rufifrons, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. p. 599 (1S83) • 



id. Hand-l. iv. p. 50 (1903). 



The eggs of Hume's Tit^Babbler are broad ovals with a white, 

 somewhat glossy ground, dotted and freckled with light red and dull 

 purplish, the markings being most numerous towards the larger 

 end, and in some specimens forming an irregular zone round it. They 

 measure -6 to -65 in length, and -48 to -53 in breadth. 



3. Margherita, Assam, 14th April. E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq., and 



Dr. H. Collart [P.]. 



4. Margherita, Assam, 14th April E. C. Stuart Baker, Esq. rCl. 



and 20th July. ) 4 L^ J- 



