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Family TURDID^. 



Genus PLATYCICHLA, Baird. 



Platycichla flavipes ( Vieill.) 

 (Plate V. fig. 5.) 



Merula flavipes, Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. p. 253 (1881) ; Sharpe in 

 Seebohm's Mon. Turdidce, ii. p. 81 (1900) ; von Ihering, B£V. Mus. 

 Paulista, ii. p. 199 (1900). 



Platycichla iiavipes, Sharpe, Sand-l. iv. p. Ill (1903). 



The three eggs of the Brazilian Grey Ouzel are of a narrow oval 

 shape and of a duU surface. They are pale greenish blue, rather 

 coarsely blotched and spotted with reddish brown and lilac-grey. 

 In two of the examples the blotches are larger at the broad end 

 than elsewhere. They measure respectively : 1-2 by -8; 1-18 by '8; 

 1-22 by -8. 



3. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Alexander Fry, Esq. [P.]. 



Platycichla venezuelensis, Sharpe. 



Merula flavipes, auct. pt., ex Venezuela. 



Merula carbonaria, Nehrk. £at. JBiersamml. p. 38 (1899). 



Merula venezuelensis, Sharpe in Seebohm's Mon. Turdidce, ii. p. 83 



(1900). 

 Platycichla venezuelensis, Sharpe, ITand-l. iv. p. Ill (1903). 



The eggs of the Venezuelan Grey Ouzel are represented in 

 the Collection by four specimens from the Crowley Bequest. 

 They resemble those of P. flavipes in colour, but are smaller, 

 rather more glossy, and, in general appearance, brighter. One 

 of the four differs from the others in being very thickly spotted and 

 streaked all over, but little ground-colour being visible. In size they 

 vary from -96 to 1-11 in length, and from -73 to 79 in breadth. 



4. Venezuela (Guffenheimer). Crowley Bequest. 



Genus MYIEDESTES, Swains. 



Myiedestes ralloides (d'Orh.). 



(Plate VII. fig. 16.) 



Myiadestes ralloides, Set. 8( Salv. P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 492. 



Myiadectes ralloides, Sharpe, Cat Birds B. M. vi. p. 375 (1881) ; Nehrk. 



Kat. Mersamml. p. 50 (1899). 

 Myiedestes ralloides, Sharpe, Sand-l. iv. p. 113 (1903). 



The eggs of the Andean Solitaire are of a rather broad, pointed, 

 oval shape, and slightly glossy. The ground is white or pinkish- 



